Leipzig String Quartet:
Stefan Arzberger
violin
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Tilman Büning
violin
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Ivo Bauer
viola
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Matthias Moosdorf
violoncello
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756-1791)
Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546
Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517)
Sequentia from “Choralis Constantinus”
Cristóbal Halffter (*1930)
String Quartet No. 7 "Espacio de Silencio"
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132
This matinee program of the Leipzig String Quartet covers five hundred years of music history. Heinrich Isaac’s collection “Choralis Constantinus,” whose 372 motets embody a compendium of the polyphonic arts, represents the earliest point of this historical journey; closest to our own time is the Seventh String Quartet by Spanish composer Cristóbal Halffter, which was premiered in Santander as recently as 2008 by the Leipzig Quartet. But framing the program are two classics that make powerful references to the musical past. In the two movements of K. 546, Mozart breathes new life into the Baroque art of the fugue, while Beethoven uses the archaic Lydian mode for the famous “Convalescent’s Song of Thanksgiving to the Godhead” in the A minor Quartet. “You can’t understand anything until you have heard it,” Aldous Huxley has one of the characters in his novel “Point Counter Point” declare, where he also writes: “The music was a proof; God existed. But only so long as the violins were playing. When the bows were lifted from the strings, what then?”
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