Jerusalem Quartet (strijkkwartet)

Year after year, the Jerusalem Quartet amazes with technical perfection and an incredibly polished ensemble. This time they highlight some of the most beautiful pages from the history of the string quartet, which grew from a new instrumentation to a full-fledged genre with Joseph Haydn. In his 'String Quartet opus 33 no. 3' Haydn displayed his compositional ingenuity. The decorations of the violin line in the opening movement and the trills from the trio of the second movement earned this piece the nickname 'Bird Quartet'. A hundred years later, Borodin had completed one of his most important works: his second string quartet. Borodin's greatest strength lay in the lyrical and the descriptive, which is illustrated in the beautiful 'Notturno'. With the fourth string quartet by Béla Bartók, the Jerusalem Quartet finally opts for a classic from modern quartet literature: Bartók's string quartets, full of striking sound effects such as double stops and glissandos.

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