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2024-04-23 07:26:00
Attention must be paid: the Engegård Quartet at Conway Hall in Mozart, Bartok, Maja Ratkje, and Fanny Mendelssohn
[…] ensemble played a programme that began with Mozart's Quartet No.22 in B♭ "Prussian" K.589 followed by Bartok's Quartet No.3 Sz.85, then A Tale of Lead and Light by contemporary Norwegian composer Maja Ratkje and finally Fanny Mendelssohn's Quartet in E flat. Before the concert, I gave a talk Three Contrasting Composers, exploring Fanny Mendelssohn, Bartok and Maja Ratkje and the background to their works.Mozart's Quartet K.589 is one of a trio that he dedicated to King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia. The King was a talented cellist and all three quartets have a prominent cello part. The Engegård Quartet has recorded all of Mozart's quartets [on Lawo Classics, see my 2020 interview with them talKing about the recording] and what was noticeable from the outset in their performance was the way this was four equal lines, with a strong sense of equal interaction between them and a performance that was […]
2024-04-21 04:27:08
… Qi Mu, who was far away in New York, naturally had no idea that somewhere outside the TV, a man wa
2024-04-21 04:27:05
The lively and spacious Isaac Stern Auditorium was the main auditorium of Carnegie Hall. The auditor
2024-04-15 04:04:30
Of course, the straightforward Hooke did not notice anything unusual about the youth. He sighed, “Ah
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