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Salzburg Mozartwoche (5) - Hagen Quartet, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, 30 January 2024
Grosser Saal, MozarteumHaydn: String Quartet in D minor, op.76 no.2, Hob. III:76, ‘Fifths’ Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, KV 421/417b Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, op.131 Lukas Hagen, Rainer Schmidt (violins)Veronika Hagen (viola)Clemens Hagen (cello)Image: Wolfgang Lienbacher Three string quartets in minor keys, two of them in the same minor key, might sound like an overload of misery, or at least darkness, but matters were more mixed in this Hagen Quartet Mozartwoche recital. It was not exactly full of the joys of spring, but then we have some way to go in our Winterreise before we reach such joys. More to the point, we could enjoy a cornucopia of invention from three of the supreme masters of the genre, Mozart rightly at the centre. Haydn was, of course, as close to the inventor of the string quartet as makes little matter, certainly its ‘father’ in a way he was […]
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[…] now embodies the Ring. Inevitably, the child comes between the quarrelling parents and in darkness Gunther decides to turn up, ties it to a dining-chair and then decides to violently bash Brünnhilde against a wall in an insane moment. Grane fares even worse to the extent that Brünnhilde weirdly discovers his head stuffed in a white plastic shopping-bag. The scene of Gibiching Hall posed a question, too. The only decorative picture in the hallowed hall shows Hagen, Gunther and Gutrune as Big Game hunters - another bizarre but interesting touch by Schwarz - proudly standing beside a dead zebra, maybe one they bagged on safari in Kenya while a recently killed elephant was dumped on the floor. With shoulder-length hair, wearing a baseball hat, Gunther (Markus Eiche) came over as a weak and completely barmy character nervously charging round Gibiching Hall wearing a T-shirt stating: ‘Who the fuck is Grane?’ In stark […]
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