Amaury Coeytaux, violin
Loïc Rio, violin
Laurent Marfaing, viola
François Kieffer, cello
We are all familiar with Ravel’s love of Spanish music and his friendships with the Iberian artists of his time.
The composer of the Boléro championed these works, which are animated by an ‘intense life’, where ‘the melody flows in a seething torrent’ and is punctuated by a ‘prodigious rhythmic animation rhythm’. Today less well known than Manuel de Falla or Granados, Joaquín Turina was one of those composers promoted by Ravel. La oración del torero, originally written for four mandolins, evokes the contrast between the fierce animation of the arena and the audience waiting for the spectacle, and the silent devotion of a bullfighter praying for his life in an adjoining chapel. Another important influence of Ravel’s music, the Russian Romantic repertoire also explores writing for quartet. Tchaikovsky’s third and final is one of the composer’s darkest pieces and its funeral march ra during his funeral. The Modigliani quartet has been familiar with Ravel and his only quartet for many years. The work of a composer still a student, impressed by the path opened up by Debussy, this first piece of chamber music is nonetheless the expression of an already unique.
‘This serious and youthful music appears, in its ardent suavity, to be the most spontaneous that Ravel ever wrote,’ wrote Roland Manuel. A rich programme, for a colourful concert!
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Program :
Joaquín Turina, La oración del terero
Maurice Ravel, String Quartet ords in F major
Piotr Illitch Tchaikovsky, String Quartet No. 3 in E flat
