Extending traditions: Jörg Widmann and the Hagen Quartet

By Edward Sava-Segal, 24 March 2019

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“listening to an unfamiliar work, we often add our own Proustian “remembrances of things past””

Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Zankel, New York City on 22 March 2019

Dvořák, Cypresses: a selection

Widmann, Clarinet Quintet

Mozart, Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581

Hagen Quartet

Lukas Hagen, Violin

Rainer Schmidt, Violin

Veronika Hagen, Viola

Clemens Hagen, Cello

Jörg Widmann, Clarinet

The Hagen Quartet at the Festival de Pâques

Mark Valencia, 7th April

A performance that sacrificed a degree of Gallic fragrance in its pursuit of precision.

****1

Hagen Quartet shines in Zankel Hall

Edward Sava-Segal, 1st March

No perceivable whiff of ennui from the Hagen Quartet, whose four members truly play like a single organism.

*****

The Hagen Quartet’s Mozart: a triumph of communication

Sarah Batschelet, 2nd May

In Zurich, the German configuration brilliantly showcased the composer’s supreme achievement in the string quartet genre.

*****

Abschiedstournee einer Legende: das Hagen-Quartett am Gstaad Festival

Thomas Schacher, 21st August

In der Kirche Saanen, der Wiege des Gstaad-Menuhin-Festivals, bot das renommierte Streichquartett aus Salzburg, unterstützt vom Pianisten Mao Fujita, Kammermusik in meisterhaften Interpretationen.

*****

Frisch und melancholisch: das Hagen Quartett im Pierre Boulez Saal

Sebastian Urmoneit, 25th May

Das Quartett zeigte im einem Programm mit Haydn und Brahms, wie sich beiden Komponisten ineinander spiegeln lassen... und es wurde zu einer wahren Sternstunde.

*****

Das Hagen-Quartett und Jörg Widmann laden in die Komponierstube

Sebastian Urmoneit, 12th November

Das Hagen-Quartett und Jörg Widmann laden in die Komponierstuben von Robert Schumann und Johannes Brahms ein.

*****

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.

Extending traditions: Jörg Widmann and the Hagen Quartet at Carnegie Hall