Strijkkwartetten '24/'25
Dit concert is al geweest. Bekijk hieronder de serie Strijkkwartetten '24/'25 :
- Izhar Elias, PuraCorda String Quartet, and Femke Huizinga - 19 October 2024
- Animato Kwartet - 9 November 2024
- Lavinia Meijer and Alma Quartet - 22 March 2025
Some of the program:
Beethoven - String Quartet No. 13, on. 130
Beethoven - Great Fuge, on. 133
Janácek - String quartet no. 1, 'Kreutzersonate
On an adventure with the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
Go on an adventure with the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam! The four enthusiastic musicians like to take a step further where others stop. No wonder the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam has become an international string quartet of stature. At the beginning of 2018 the foursome received the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. Despite its international fame, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam remains close to its original mission.
Marleen Wester on the quartet's mission:
"We try to be as honest as possible, as lively as possible at the same time. We achieve this by playing with dedication and by sometimes taking considerable risks. This makes us vulnerable in a certain way. But the most important thing is that the listener sits on the edge of his seat!"
(Read the interview with Marleen Wester.)
Beethoven, Janácek and Renaissance music
Marleen Wester tells us about what makes the programme so special: "Beethoven writes music rich in contrast with his 'Thirteenth String Quartet'. In his 'First String Quartet' Janácek plays with sound in a more associative way. They're very boisterous pieces!" As a counterbalance, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam plays string quartet versions of music from the Renaissance. This serene early music provides a wonderful contrast to the impetuous string quartets of Beethoven and Janácek.
Beethoven's 'Great Fugue
When Beethoven played his 'Thirteenth String Quartet', on. 130, the composer thought he had accomplished something exceptional. The piece ended with a gigantic fugue, in which Beethoven murmurs with the musical conventions of his time. That's why he called that piece his 'Big Fuge'. When the quartet was performed for the first time, the audience asked for a repetition of the middle parts of the quartet. Beethoven would have growled furiously: "And why do they not repeat the fugue? Only they should have repeated that!" The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam does Beethoven's 'Thirteenth String Quartet' more than justice by playing the original final, the 'Große Fuge', on 26 October. Experience Beethoven at his best!
Janácek's "Kreutzersonate
The 'First String Quartet' by the Czech composer Leos Janácek is also a musical adventure. In 1923, in a fit of infatuation, the almost seventy-year-old Janácek writes his 'First String Quartet'. He gives it the title 'Kreutzersonate', after Tolstoi's famous novel. In this novel about love and jealousy, Beethoven's 'Kreutzersonate' plays a decisive role. Although Janácek is married, he dedicated this masterpiece to his very young secret love Kamilla. "Note by note glowed from my pen," he writes to her...
The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam consists of
- Judith van Driel, first violin
- Marleen Wester, second violin
- David Faber, cello
- Marie-Louise de Jong, viola
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Listen to the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam in Schubert's 'Der Tod und das Mädchen'
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