Nicolas Van Kuijk, violin
Sylvain Favre-Bulle, violin
Emmanuel François, viola
Anthony Kondo, cello
Founded in 2012, the Van Kuijk Quartet won the First Prize and Audience Prize at the Trondheim International Competition in Norway the following year, and in 2015 the prestigious First Prize at the Wigmore Hall String Quartet Competition.
Since then, the group has received a string of awards, notably with the release of two CDs devoted to Mozart. It is the first movement of the Quartet KV 421 that they have chosen to play for this concert, probably one of the darkest of the Viennese composer, who is said to have written it the same night that Constance gave birth to their first child. Considered by Schumann as the Mozart of the 19th century, Mendelssohn embodied the other side of the coin by bringing the freshness of a newlywed. The third quartet of opus 44 belongs to a series marking the return to a certain tradition, just as Mozart’s KV 421 is a tribute to the master Haydn. The musical expression remains measured, but retains the famous Mendelssohnian fairy tale in the momentum of the second movement.
The Van Kuijk will present here the beginning of a work started in 2021 with the recording of the first part of the complete works of the German composer. It is Shostakovich’s 10th quartet that will play the seesaw between light and shadow, developing a striking ambivalence between a first movement danced in a discreet and mutinous way, and a wild second allegretto furioso, projected between frenzy and despair.
Program :
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quartet n°15 KV. 421 in D minor opus 10 n°2 – 1st mouvement
Dmitri Chostakovitch, Quartet n°10 en la bémol majeur – 1st et 2nd mouvement
Felix Mendelssohn, Quartet opus 44 n°3
Concert of the Van Kuijk Quartet
Wednesday, May 18th at 8pm
Socio-cultural hall, Listrac-Médoc
Price of 3€ (instead of 10€) for participants in the “Music in the making” workshops
In partnership with the association Les concerts de Poche, VIBRE ! extends its mediation action around the string quartet to the Médoc area.
In order to encourage an audience far removed from classical music to attend the concerts, several awareness-raising workshops will be held prior to the concerts in Pauillac and Listrac-Médoc.
Focused on the discovery of classical music and creativity, these workshops are led by an actor
and/or a musician accompanied by a mediator with groups of schoolchildren, residents of nursing homes and local associations. To complete this experience, a pricing policy has been designed to allow participants to attend the concerts at a very preferential rate.
Partner
The Concerts de Poche propose a system of workshops and concerts that are indissociable and itinerant. Their goal is to bring the greatest artists of classical music, jazz or opera to rural areas and neighborhoods. With these programs, they wish to involve all audiences, in particular young people, isolated or disadvantaged people, in participative musical projects and to serve a social and territorial dynamic by creating a durable link between the inhabitants and by contributing to balance the cultural offer.
