Quartet
Finale of the Beethoven cycle with the Quatuor Ébène QuartetFinale of the Beethoven cycle with the Quatuor Ébène

At the invitation of the Berliner Philharmoniker

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Info

The Quatuor Ébène concludes its Beethoven quartets cycle. For its finale, the quartet performs the “Grosse Fuge”, which the composer originally wrote as the closing movement of his Op. 130. The work proved too challenging for many of Beethoven’s contemporaries, leading him to replace it with a new finale, publishing the fugue separately. The Quatuor Ébène now presents the Quartet, op. 130, in the form Beethoven originally envisaged, with the “Grosse Fuge” as its culmination. The programme opens with the first “Razumovsky Quartet”, a work whose symphonic breadth marks a decisive expansion of the quartet form. 

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Artists

Quatuor Ébène:
Pierre Colombet violin
Gabriel Le Magadure violin
Marie Chilemme viola
Yuya Okamoto cello

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Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in F major, op. 59 No. 1 “Razumovsky”

Interval

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, op. 130 with Grosse Fuge, op. 133

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Additional information

Duration ca. 2 hours (incl. 20 minutes interval)