Grieg - Smetana Quatuor Modigliani

• Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907): String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27:
• 1 Grieg: String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27: I. Un poco Andante - Allegro molto ed agitato - Allegro agitato - Più mosso - Presto - Prestissimo 12:54
• 2 Grieg: String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27: II. Romanze. Andantino - Allegro agitato - Tempo I - Allegro agitato - Tempo I 06:35
• 3 Grieg: String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27: III. Intermezzo. Allegro molto marcato - Più vivo e scherzando - Coda - Vivo 06:55
• 4 Grieg: String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27: IV. Finale. Lento - Presto al Saltarello - Presto - Un poco Andante - Presto 09:01
• Bedřich Smetana (1824 - 1884): String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor:
• 5 Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor: I. Allegro vivo appassionato 07:19
• 6 Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor: II. Allegro moderato à la Polka 05:12
• 7 Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor: III. Largo sostenuto 09:36
• 8 Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor: IV. Vivace 05:35
• Total Runtime 01:03:07

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Zwischen 1876 und 1878 entstanden zwei Meisterwerke inmitten einer Europa erfassenden Welle des Nationalismus. Unter dem Eindruck tragischer Ereignisse wandten sich Grieg und Smetana dem Streichquartett zu, einer bis dahin in ihrem Schaffen seltenen Form, um ihren aufgewühlten Gefühlen Ausdruck zu verleihen. Nach schwerer Erkrankung zeichnet Smetana sein Leben nach, aus einer Schaffenskrise heraus entsteht Griegs einziger vollständig erhaltener Gattungsbeitrag. Die beiden Werke von großer persönlicher Dimension und emotionaler Kraft zählen heute zu den beliebtesten Streichquartetten.

Modigliani Quartet

Quatuor Modigliani
The Paris based Modigliani Quartet, formed by four close friends in 2003, is a regular guest of the world’s top venues and finest String Quartet series. In the current and upcoming seasons, the quartet will be touring in the USA, Japan, Korea, China and extensively most of the European countries. They will return among others to the Wigmore Hall for a series of concerts, the Carnegie Hall, the Paris’ Philharmonie, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Tokyo’s Oji Hall, as well having been the first String Quartet to perform in the big Hall of the newly opened Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie at the beginning of 2017.

In 2014, the Modigliani Quartet became Artistic Directors of the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, a festival created in 1976 by Antoine Riboud and made famous through its former legendary artistic director Mstislav Rostropovich, after a pause of thirteen years. The joint efforts of the Evian Resort and the Modigliani Quartet has brought a very fast success and the festival has now become again one of Europe’s major and most publicized Summer musical events.

The quartet has been recording for the Mirare label since 2008 and has released 7 CDs, all being internationally acclaimed by the critic and awarded prizes. The next release will be complete recording of the Schumann String Quartets in the Fall of 2017.

The Modigliani Quartet, ever since very dedicated to bigger chamber music, has built true friendships and regular touring with other musicians as Sabine Meyer, Renaud Capuçon, Beatrice Rana, Nicholas Angelich, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker or Daniel Müller-Schott.

After fifteen years of building up their own sound and profile, the Modigliani Quartet is now happy to take over the responsability of passing their experience to the next generation. They created in 2016 the Atelier within the Festival in Evian and will be holding a series of Masterclasses at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris from November 2017 on.

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