Quatuor Ébène

Quatuor Ébène

Quatuor Ébène is a French string quartet.

Quatuor Ébène

Sie sind unermüdlich im musikalischen Hochgebirge unterwegs. Keine Expedition ist ihnen zu mühsam. Sie erschließen komplexe Landschaften und fühlen sich darin pudelwohl. Die Mitglieder des Quatuor Ébène zählen zur Spitzenklasse unter den Streichquartetten.Das Quatuor Ébène ist auf allen Kontinenten eine feste Größe, spätestens seit seiner Welttournee »Beethoven Live Around the World«. Die daraus resultierenden Einspielungen aller Streichquartette von Ludwig van Beethoven gelten als »neue Referenzaufnahme«. In der Tat kann man sich der Sogkraft dieses Ensembles kaum entziehen. Nichts wirkt mühsam einstudiert, sondern alles spontan und wie improvisiert.

Quatuor Diotima

Formed in 1996, Quatuor Diotima from France is a familiar name in the field of New Music. Because with »Fragmente – Stille, An Diotima« of 1980, Luigi Nono composed one of the epochal works of contemporary music. And because Nono also refers to Beethoven’s equally innovative, late String Quartet Op. 132 in his work, Quatuor Diotima now combines these two compositions for an evening of great string quartet music. Luigi Nono described his string quartet, which was premiered at the Bonn Beethovenfest in 1980, as »transcendental music«. Nono wove a number of quotations into the fine soundscape that oscillates between silence and non-silence, including from Verdi’s »Ave Maria«. Reference is also made to the slow, transcendentally beautiful movement »Heilige Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit« from Beethoven’s final official String Quartet Op. 132.

Quatuor Blanc

Violin, bandoneon, double bass and piano – it is astonishing that these four instruments can come together in one sound, as they each sound very different. Violinist and composer Hans-Christian Jaenicke has arranged Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings in E major for this delightful tango quartet line-up. He has also composed a work for his ensemble, which is performed here for the first time in this version.

Quatuor Modigliani

Quatuor Modigliani

Quatuor Agate

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.« Under the heading »Outlaws«, the Quatuor Agate presents a well-thought out concept programme in Hamburg with String Quartet No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich at its heart. Under the impact of the tyranny of his Russian homeland, Shostakovich created a piece of bloodcurdling intensity in 1960 that he saw as his own musical obituary. Adrien Jurkovic, Thomas Descamps, Raphaël Pagnon and Simon Iachemet surround this confessional music with a broad-based programme combination which ranges from the Renaissance to the present day. Projections accompany the programme and shine a light on the life of the composers. With singing, the musicians rise far above their usual role as instrumentalists in the commissioned composition by Anna Korsun.

Quartet Quatuor Ébène, Amihai Grosz and Nicolas Altstaedt

Its perfect fusion of precision with spontaneity has made the Quatuor Ébène one of the world's leading string quartets. Together with solo violist of the Berliner Philharmoniker Amihai Grosz and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt – the ensemble presents Peter Tchaikovsky's string sextet “Souvenir de Florence”. Despite the chamber music instrumentation, the composer created a work of almost symphonic dimensions that ingeniously combines Russian drama with Italian grace. The programme opens with a string quartet by Joseph Haydn and highly virtuosic divertimenti by Benjamin Britten.

Quatuor Diotima

Quatuor Danel

Quatuor Danel