Chiaroscuro Quartet
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
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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.