Metamorphoses of a 20 year-old string quartet: the Goldner Quartet in Sydney

At one point in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, the narrator is listening to a sonata for piano and violin by the fictional Vinteuil, when “at a certain moment, without being able to distinguish any clear outline, or to give a name to what was pleasing him, suddenly enraptured, he tried to grasp the phrase or harmony – he did not know which – that had just been played and that had opened and expa

The noted Beethoven pianist Artur Schnabel was famously interested only in music that he felt was “better than it can be performed”. This idea of works which transcend any individual performance seems particularly true when it comes to Beethoven’s late string quartets, enigmatic masterpieces which continue to pose challenges to interpreters nearly two centuries after they were written.

La Sonate D 894 de Schubert est apparue comme une parenthèse dans l'espace-temps, avant une seconde partie de récital (consacrée à Chopin) qui a parfois surpris par des effets et des choix curieux.

Le quatuor familial a proposé un beau triptyque, révélateur du parcours du compositeur salzbourgeois dans le genre du quatuor à cordes.

Dans un programme qui associait Beethoven, Ravel, Chopin, Liszt et Schumann, la pianiste a montré l'étendue de sa personnalité, pulvérisant les idées reçues.

Où « Pat Kop » va-t-elle chercher tout cet imaginaire ? Dans un concert aux allures de bœuf virtuose entre amis, la violoniste et compositrice d'origine moldave a enchanté le public de sa ville d'adoption.