Castalian String Quartet / Charisius
Monday
9
January
2023
19:30
Mozart-Saal
Performers
Castalian String Quartet
Sini Simonen, Violine
Daniel Roberts, Violine
Ruth Gibson, Viola
Steffan Morris, Violoncello
Isabel Charisius, Viola
Programme
Benjamin Britten
Streichquartett Nr. 1 D-Dur op. 25 (1941)
Charlotte Bray
Ungrievable lives (EA)
Präsentation der gleichnamigen Kunstinstallation von Caroline Burraway im Mozart-Saal-Foyer
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Johannes Brahms
Streichquintett Nr. 2 G-Dur op. 111 (1890)
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Johannes Brahms
2. Satz: Adagio (Streichquintett Nr. 2 G-Dur op. 111) (1890)
Subscription series
Kammermusik
Links
https://www.castalianstringquartet.com
http://charlottebray.co.uk
https://www.cburraway.co.uk
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Brahms, Britten, Bray
In 2020, The Guardian newspaper characterized the London-based Castalian String Quartet as a »group with drive, real personality and strong interpretive ideas«. For its third guest appearance at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the ensemble, which has won many awards since its founding in 2011, has brought in top-class reinforcement for Brahms' 2nd String Quintet in the form of Isabel Charisius, who served as violist of the legendary Alban Berg Quartet after the death of Thomas Kakuska. The other program is British, with works by Benjamin Britten and his successful young compatriot Charlotte Bray.
Burraway’s art installation Ungrievable Lives, comprises 13 children’s dresses, handmade from refugee lifejackets she gathered at the Lifejacket Graveyard in Lesvos - each dress, represents 1 million of the 13 million child refugees worldwide.
(This is pre the Ukraine war, there is now a further 2 million child refugees).