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Carnegie Hall Presents

Chiaroscuro Quartet

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 7:30 PM Weill Recital Hall
Chiaroscuro Quartet by Joss McKinley
Discover chamber music masterworks by Mozart and Schubert with a striking new clarity and richness. With a dynamic performance style and use of historical bows and gut strings, the Chiaroscuro Quartet achieves a sound “so immediate, you could summon any musical line at any time for the closest of attention” (The Irish Times). In this program, the ensemble performs the last of the quintessential string quartets Mozart dedicated to Haydn (who, upon hearing it, immediately declared Mozart “the greatest composer I know, either personally or by reputation”). The quartet also performs Schubert’s monumental final string quartet, whose visceral, dynamic intensity and technical variety make it an especially enticing piece.

Part of: Quartets Plus

Performers

Chiaroscuro Quartet
- Alina Ibragimova, Violin
- Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, Violin
- Emilie Hörnlund, Viola
- Claire Thirion, Cello

Program

MOZART String Quartet in C Major, K. 465, "Dissonance"

SCHUBERT String Quartet in G Major, D. 887

Event Duration

The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission. Please note that there will be no late seating before intermission.

Salon Encores

Join us for a free drink at a post-concert reception in Weill Recital Hall’s Jacobs Room.
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At a Glance

MOZART  String Quartet in C Major, K. 465, “Dissonance”

One of Mozart’s most extraordinary chamber works, K. 465 takes its name—and much of its intermittently gloomy character—from the stinging dissonances that spice the short introduction to the first movement. Although Haydn would later use dissonant harmonies to striking effect in his oratorio The Creation, he, like many of his contemporaries, found Mozart’s tonal unorthodoxy difficult to swallow.

 

SCHUBERT  String Quartet in G Major, D. 887

In the mid-1820s, as illness and financial trouble started to interfere in his life, Schubert found compositional motivation in the idea of writing a “grand symphony” on the scale of Beethoven’s Ninth. Although that ambitious project never came to fruition, his last three quartets—the G-Major Quartet of 1826 and the quartets in A minor (“Rosamunde”) and D minor (“Death and the Maiden”), both written in 1824—were clearly conceived on a symphonic scale.

Bios

Chiaroscuro Quartet

Formed in 2005, Chiaroscuro Quartet has a unique sound—described in The Observer as “a shock to the ears of the best kind”—that is highly acclaimed by audiences and critics all over Europe. Dubbed “a trailblazer for the authentic performance of High Classical chamber ...

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