Fauré's & Chausson's string quartets by the Quatuor Hermès
In the early 20th century, the string quartet came to represent the culmination of a career for many French composers. Since the widespread circulation of Beethoven’s last quartets had ‘condemned them to the status of masterpieces’ (Joël-Marie Fauquet), composers tended to tackle this genre with a certain degree of trepidation. Like César Franck, who completed his first quartet in 1890, the year of his death, and Ernest Chausson, who did not finish the only quartet he began in 1898 (he died in 1899), Gabriel Fauré only turned to the genre for his very last work, the E Minor Quartet, opus 121 (1924).
QUATUOR HERMÈS
Omer Bouchez violin
Elise Liu violin
Yung-Hsin Lou Chang viola
Anthony Kondo cello
Concert programme:
Gabriel Fauré: Quartet in E Minor op. 121
1. Allegretto moderato
2. Andante
3. Finale : Allegro
Ernest Chausson: Quartet in C Minor op. 35
1. Grave. Modéré
2. Très calme
3. Gaîment et pas trop vite
Production Palazzetto Bru Zane
In collaboration with the C.I.C.T. – Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
As part of the 6th Festival Palazzetto Bru Zane Paris
Video produced by CALLE CARMEN (directed by John Blanch & Guillaume L’Hôte)
Recorded at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris / June 1st, 2018
© Calle Carmen / Palazzetto Bru Zane
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