With Malinconia, the Quartet imagined that the first great composers of string quartets had access to modern clarinets. Would Mozart have continued to write for clarinet ensembles after his Adagio in B-flat major K 411 for 2 clarinets and 3 basset horns? How would Beethoven have approached clarinets if the bass clarinet had already existed?
This is the focus of this program, in which you will hear, alongside the Eight Sketches, Mozart’s 15th quartet in D minor and Beethoven’s Opus 18 No. 6 quartet, known as “Malinconia.”
The Quatuor Anches Hantées delivers a delicate interpretation of this triptych. The melancholic twists shine through in a performance imbued with the joy of being sad and merging into a dark happiness.
Program:
W.A. Mozart, Quartet K421 in D minor / P. Hersant, Eight Sketches / L. v. Beethoven, Quartet Opus 18 No. 6