BRSO-Kammerkonzert »In memoriam«

In the organizer's words:

Under the title In memoriam, this chamber concert brings together works that do not transfigure memory, but make it audible. Henry Purcell's Chaconne, for example, unfolds a quiet gravity from the strict repetition of its bass figure and moves us to pause. Benjamin Britten's Second String Quartet, which the composer wrote on the occasion of Purcell's 250th birthday, combines formal clarity with a deeply personal tonal language that does not quote memories, but thinks them through. In György Kurtág's work, the memory is right there in the title and condenses grief into a few gestures: fragments, pauses, like quiet resistance to forgetting. Dmitri Shostakovich's 15th String Quartet finally becomes a radical farewell - six slow movements, permeated by torpor, doubt and bitter concentration.

Program

Henry Purcell
Chaconne in G minor, Z. 730

Benjamin Britten
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, op. 36

Intermission

György Kurtág
"Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánzky", op. 28

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor, op. 144

Performers

Korbinian Altenberger violin
Lorenz Chen violin
Benedict Hames viola
Jaka Stadler violoncello

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