Quatuor Diotima

Lucerne School of Music, Saal Salquin, Kriens, Switzerland

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Important Info

Festival: Lucerne Summer Festival 2021

Type: Classical Concert

City: Kriens, Switzerland

Starts at: 16:00

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

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You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Festival

Lucerne Summer Festival 2021

Four weeks of more than 100 concerts: International classical music stars in the heart of Switzerland.

Programme

Alex Nante: Quatuor à cordes no. 1 Prima Materia

Rebecca Saunders: Unbreathed

Ludwig van Beethoven: Grosse Fuge in B Flat Major Op. 133

Overview

“Eternally contemporary”: That is how Igor Stravinsky characterized Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge. Indeed, it is one of the craziest and most challenging works in quartet literature: the way Beethoven fuses fugue and variation techniques here, fragmenting the themes into probing motifs and radically exhausting the possibilities of counterpoint so that “the instruments have to struggle with tremendous difficulties, as if traversing the North and South Poles, criss-crossing with a myriad of dissonances” – this music continues to awaken either amazed wonder or baffled dismay to this day. In 2017, composer-in-residence Rebecca Saunders was no less eager to experiment with the string quartet genre: “A melody, think Bach” she notes above the first bars of Unbreathed. But of course it is not simply a melody that is heard. Rather, it is a fascinating excursion into sonority that initially revolves around the note D and allows the sound to wander through the instruments, coloring it microtonally and constantly extracting new facets through detailed instructions as to which string to play on, with or without vibrato, completely or only half on the bridge.

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