Eliot Quartett
September 24, 2023 @ 2:30 pm
| $25 – $40
Recital Program
Joseph Haydn Germaine Tailleferre |
String Quartet op. 74 nr. 3 in g minor “The Rider” I. Allegro II. Largo Assai III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Finale: Allegro con brio String Quartet (1919) I. Modéré II. Intermède III. Final: Vif |
Intermission
Franz Schubert |
String Quartet in d minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden” I. Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Scherzo: Allegro Molto IV. Presto |
The Eliot Quartett has established itself as a cornerstone of the music scene in its hometown of Frankfurt, Germany. In addition to appearances at the Alte Oper, the Polytechnische Gesellschaft concert series and the Schumann Gesellschaft, the Eliot Quartett is a regular guest at the Holzhausenschlösschen in Frankfurt, where it had the honour of performing six concerts as artist in residence with guests Boris Brovtsyn, Annika Treutler, Laura Ruiz Ferreres, Torleif Thedéen and Maxim Rysanov in 2019.
The Eliot Quartett’s concert schedule includes performances at renowned festivals and concerts series throughout Europe. It has performed at the Bachfest Leipzig, the Kasseler Musiktagen, the Mozartfest Würzburg, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, the Festival Musica Sur in Spain, the Styriarte in Graz, the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Schubertiade.
The four musicians began their chamber music instruction with Prof. Hubert Buchberger and went on to study with Prof. Tim Vogler at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and with Prof. Günter Pichler at the Instituto Internacional de Música de Camera at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. The Eliot Quartett has received valuable musical guidance from Valentin Erben, Oliver Wille, Martin Beaver, and the Mandelring Quartet and enjoys a close working relationship with the esteemed pianist Alfred Brendel and the Belcea Quartet.
The Eliot Quartett is named after the American poet T. S. Eliot whose famous work “Four Quartets” was inspired by the innovative late Quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven. Eliot, like Beethoven, attempted to establish a connection between past, present and future by breaking away from the accepted classical forms of the time. The Eliot Quartett has released several recordings on GENUIN classics.