Ein Kreislauf mit dem Belcea Quartet im Pierre Boulez Saal

By Sebastian Urmoneit, 26 February 2019

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“es lässt sich mit Worten kaum beschreiben”

Reviewed at Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin on 23 February 2019

Schubert, String Quartet in C minor "Quartettsatz" D.703

Britten, String Quartet no. 3, Op.94

Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.57

Mozart, Quintet in A major, arr. Mozart from Piano Concerto, K414

Belcea Quartet

Piotr Anderszewski, Piano

A constellation of quartets end the East Neuk Festival

Simon Thompson, 29th June

Sixteen of the finest string players around join forces on one stage to end the East Neuk Festival in a grand finale.

****1

Echoes of Youth: the Belcea and Ébène Quartets at Carnegie Hall

Edward Sava-Segal, 14th November

A concert of Mendelssohn and Enescu octets which proves that eight can be more than four plus four.

****1

A game of numbers: Belcea Quartet and Quatuor Ébène play octets

Alexander Hall, 28th May

Sometimes you just marvel at the level of musical inspiration and the virtuosic quality of the playing. The two octets by Mendelssohn and Enescu make a very satisfying pairing.

****1

A Basque banquet at the Festival Ravel

Mark Valencia, 30th August

Vilde Frang and Bertrand Chamayou join the Belcea Quartet for a musical feast including Chausson's sumptuous Concert.

*****

Beautiful Brahms from the Belcea Quartet at East Neuk

Simon Thompson, 29th June

Heavenly strings and Hellish piano from the Belcea Quartet and their celebrity guests in Crail as the 2023 East Neuk Festival begins.

****1

All passions spent: Chamayou and the Belcea Quartet

Chris Garlick, 13th April

Two larger than life piano quintets share star billing on an intense Wigmore Hall programme.

*****

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Sebastian Urmoneit

Sebastian Urmoneit sudierte Musikwissenschaft und Philosophie in Berlin (u. a. bei Carl Dahlhaus). Ergänzendes Studium an der HdK Berlin (UdK)(u. a. bei Heinrich Poos und Hartmut Fladt), Dissertation zu Wagners „Tristan und Isolde“; Aufsätze über Schubert, Wagner, Wolf, Strauss und Brahms; Herausgabe: Joseph Haydn, Memoria, Band 11 mit Hartmut Fladt. Werkeinführungen für das Berliner Konzerthaus, das Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, die Bamberger Symphoniker, die Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, die Südwestdeutsche Konzertdirektion Erwin Russ GmbH, die Dachauer Schlosskonzerte, die Albert Konzerte GmbH in Freiburg u. a.

Ein Kreislauf und eine offene Frage mit dem Belcea Quartet im Pierre Boulez Saal