Longing can mean giving a tangible sense of lack something like an undefined direction. No medium is as familiar with this phenomenon as music, where the audible sound always communicates to its listeners as a structure of tension, an urgency, or a palpable sense of calm. The Amaryllis Quartet explores the relationship between »music« and »longing« in a multi-layered program that begins by combining Antonín Dvořák’s famous miniature »Cypresses« with the contemporary work »Gesänge der Sehnsucht« (Songs of Longing) by David Philip Hefti. The key of longing par excellence, E-minor, then gives Ludwig van Beethoven the opportunity to point far ahead into the musical language of Romanticism through his string quartet, using the stylistic means of the Classical period.
PERFORMERS
Amaryllis Quartett string quartet
Gustav Frielinghaus violin
Lena Sandoz violin
Mareike Hefti viola
Yves Sandoz violoncello
PROGRAM
Antonín Dvořák
Zypressen für zwei Violinen, Viola und Violoncello B 152
David Philip Hefti
String Quartet No. 8 »Gesänge der Sehnsucht«
- Interval -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Streichquartett e-Moll op. 59/2
