Ibragimova & Mönkemeyer & Poltéra & Youn
Mahler, Mozart, Brahms
Dates
thu 04 apr 2019 - 20:00
location
Blauwe zaal
price
€ 25, 20 (standard) / € 20, 15 (under-25s/over-65s) / € 8 (under-19s)
duration
1h 40' interval
at about 8.40 pm
Extra info
Bernard De Graef . 7.15pm . Blue Bar
This ensemble represents a generation of exceptionally talented musicians. And this will stand them in good stead here, because Mozart’s First Piano Quintet was originally declared unperformable by the client, who promptly cancelled the remainder of his commission. There are some stormy sections in Johannes Brahms’ Third Piano Quartet too. In an instrumental declaration of love, he lays claim to all registers of the instruments, making this work feel like a symphony that has been forced into chamber music proportions. Exactly the same thing is going on in Mahler’s chamber music. This is unsurprising, because alongside ten gigantic symphonies, Mahler wrote just a handful of other works. Moreover, the Late-Romantic ‘Quartettsatz’ is his only purely instrumental piece of chamber music. And it’s quite something.
Works
Quartettsatz in a
Pianokwartet nr 1 in g, KV478
Pianokwartet nr 3 in c, opus 60