Jerusalem Kwartet

Jerusalem Quartet: Alexander Pavlovsky & Sergei Bresler (violin), Ori Kam (viola), Kyril Zlotnikov (cello)

By “the three B's” I mean a bit melomaniac Bach, Beethoven and Brahms – although there are also some known cases where they mean Beethoven three times.

If string quartet is of course blunt with Bach, although Die Kunst der Fuge or the arrangements that Mozart made of some Bach fugues are not to be despised.

Just to say that Jerusalem Quartet , who will be a guest at the Handelsbeurs for the second time this season on March 16, completes the list of B's ​​with Samuel Barber. You mainly know him from his Adagio for string orchestra. Well: that beautiful bag of tears from the 1930s is originally the second movement from Barber's first string quartet, here performed by Jerusalem Quartet.

Beethoven's very first string quartet, the opener of the six-movement opus 18, which despite the quite Mozartian atmosphere also shows Ludwig's slightly more energetic temperament.

Finally, there is Brahms' opus 51/2, the second part of Brahms' first attempt in the quartet genre, which he himself considered worth publishing. However, he was already in his forties when he wrote this work. However, remaining self-critical due to the shining, but heavy example of the late Beethoven.