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Quatuor Agate

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Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 19:30
At the Rising Stars Festival, the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall again becomes the stage for the most exciting musicians of the young generation in January 2025. Amongst these stars of tomorrow is the Quatuor Agate, as the only ensemble. The string quartet formed in Berlin in 2016 and the musicians’ joint career long since assumed an international format. The Guardian enthuses about the Brahms debut album by the four Frenchmen: »Warm, wonderfully refined sound, impeccable intonation and punctilious attention to detail.«... Read full text

Keywords: Recital

Info & Ticket (www.elbphilharmonie.de)
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Musicians

Adrien JurkovicViolin
Thomas DescampsViolin
Raphaël PagnonViola
Simon IachemetCello

Program

Anna KorsunLast Flight / commissioned by Konzerthaus Dortmund, Kölner Philharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris and the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO)
Carlo Gesualdo da VenosaCanzon francese del Principe
Carlo Gesualdo da VenosaO vos omnes aus: Tenebrae-Responsorien / from: Tenebrae-Responsorien
Dame Ethel SmythThe Deliverance. The Prisoner Awakes aus: The Prison / from: The Prison (transcription for string quartet by Quatuor Agate)
Dame Ethel SmythScherzo aus: Streichquartett c-Moll / from: String Quartet in C minor
Alexander AljabjewAdagio aus: Streichquartett Nr. 3 G-Dur / from: String Quartet No. 3 in G major
Dmitri ShostakovichString Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Philip GlassMelodies for Saxophone Nr. 6 / transcription for string quartet (selection)
Dinuk WijeratneDisappearance of Lisa Gherardini
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