Quatuor Ebène (strijkkwartet)

MOZART, SCHUBERT, TJAIKOVSKY

Bartók, Haydn, even The Beatles and jazz great Wayne Shorter: everything Quatuor Ebène touches turns to gold. They come to Ghent with an exquisite program: Schubert's Rosamunde quartet, which too often loses out on stages to its well-known successor Der Tod und das Mädchen. The premiere in 1824 was nevertheless a resounding success, a stroke of luck in Schubert's otherwise disastrous career. He already suffered from syphilis, struggled with depression and was in financial ruin. But in his music he maintains the tension between tragic heaviness and an almost unbearable lightness. Tchaikovsky's first string quartet sounds very Schubertian, but with infectious grace, refined humor and the inevitable Russian pathos. At our request, Quatuor Ebène will also play Mozart's Divertimento KV 138 with searing dissonances in the first movement and their liberating resolution, and a triumphant final movement that will move you to the edge of your seat.

Quatuor Ebène: Pierre Colombet (violin), Gabriel Le Magadure (violin), Mathieu Herzog (viola), Raphaël Merlin (cello)