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RENCONTRES INÉDITES III
Raykhelson, Chausson, Schumann / Saadi – Špaček – Barenboim – Tomter – Cheng – Maisky – Moreau – Debargue – Schiff
Luminary and younger-generation Verbier artists join together for three contrasting Romantic works from three different centuries.
Programme
IGOR RAYKHELSON (1961-)
String Quartet in F minor
(Saadi, S. Maisky, Barenboim, Cheng)
ERNEST CHAUSSON (1855-1899)
Piano Quartet in A major Op. 30
(Debargue, Špaček, Tomter, Moreau)
Interval
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63
(Schiff, Saadi, Cheng)
Distribution
- Sascha Maisky violin
- Yamen Saadi violin
- Josef Špaček violin
- Michael Barenboim violin
- Lars Anders Tomter viola
- Bryan Cheng cello
- Edgar Moreau cello
- Lucas Debargue piano
- András Schiff piano
Composed in 2010, Igor Raykhelson’s neo-Romantic String Quartet in F minor opens on a Tchaikovsky-ish elegiac idea which then becomes the melodic basis of the ensuing waltz music. After a darkly contemplative Adagio meditabondo, the finale re-introduces the elegiac idea. Chausson’s 1898 Piano Quartet in A major is equally full of richly textured dialogue, coloured by antique modal harmonies. Outer Animé movements – the finale re-introducing previous themes – encase a long-lined slow movement and a delicately lilting Simple et sans hâte. Schumann’s texturally and thematically packed First Piano Trio of 1847 opens on restless music whose rising fourth will form the basis of a new theme at movement’s centre, introduced in glassy sul ponticello tones. Similarly, the second movement’s smooth central section is a transformation of its scampering, scherzo-like outer ends. The third is a sober Langsam, tipping straight into the more cloudless finale.