The Fauré Quartet
The Fauré Quartet returns to The Diamond - this time with Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition!
Programme
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Three lieder arranged for piano quartet:
Les Bercaux, op. 23 no. 1 (1879)
Notre Amour, op. 23 no. 2 (1879)
Claire de Lune, Op. 46 No. 2 (1887)
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45 (1886)
Break
Modest Musorgsky (1839-1881): Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
Since 1995, the Fauré Quartet has developed and paved the way for new repertoire for the piano quartet's constellation of instruments. Their versions of the piano quartet classics from Amadeus Mozart to Gabriel Fauré are breathtaking and captivating, and so is their transformation of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition from orchestra to four musicians. And it is not only in classical music that they have shown themselves, as they have done such things as recorded versions of Rufus Wainwright's songs and worked with the NDR Big Band.
Work by Mussorgsky adapted by Ravel
The evening's programme consists of Modest Mussorgsky's previously mentioned Pictures at an Exhibition, a work consisting of 10 movements that Mussorgsky originally wrote for piano in 1874 in memory of his friend, the painter Victor Hartmann, with inspiration from his paintings. The work only became known 50 years after Mussorgsky had written it, when Maurice Ravel adapted the movements so that they could now be performed by a symphony orchestra.
On this evening you can experience the Fauré Quartet's own adaptation of the work for piano quartet. The quartet is named after the French composer Gabriel Fauré, and from his hand they play the three songs which they have also arranged for the quartet, as well as Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 2.
Participants
Dirk Mommertz, piano
Erika Geldsetzer, violin
Sascha Frömbling, viola
Konstantin Heidrich, cello
Piano quartets in The Black Diamond is supported by the Beckett-foundation
