Meeting with the Quatuor Modigliani & Akira Mizubayashi – 4pm
At La Machine à Musique
Concert by the Quatuor Modigliani – 8pm
At the Auditorium of the Opéra National de Bordeaux
Amaury Coeytaux, violin
Loïc Rio, violin
Laurent Marfaing, viola
François Kieffer, cello
The Modigliani is a major ensemble in the string quartet scene, working on all fronts of chamber music, and this year they are celebrating their 20th anniversary! To celebrate this anniversary, they have put together a programme on the theme of virtuosity and freedom. Virtuosity in Haydn, in the first of the six famous quartets conceived for the violinist Johann Tost, in a Finale reminiscent of that of Symphony No. 88. The freedom of a one-movement piece, written on a feverish whim by Hugo Wolf, and revealing a dance that is playful, seductive, but also terrible at times. Freedom and virtuosity come together in the first of Beethoven’s three Razumovsky Quartets, a cornerstone of musical history in which the composer definitively emancipates the instruments from the tutelage of the violin, writing parts for them that are impressive in their difficulty. The Viennese composer follows the “new paths” that he calls for in the Eroica Symphony, destabilising all the listeners and musicians of the time in the process. And as the icing on the musical cake, the Modiglianis asked their friend and accomplice Jean-Frédéric Neuburger for help with a special commission, tailor-made by the pianist-composer for their bows. “The Modiglianis seemed to be setting out to conquer the world. Which they did. (Eric Dahan, Libération)
Joseph Haydn, Quartet in G major, Op. 54 No. 1
Hugo Wolf, Italian Serenade in G major
Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, String quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven, Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59 No. 1 Razumovsky
