Quatuor Mosaiques © Lukas Beck
Quatuor Mosaïques / Kenner / Frankowski
Tuesday
9
May
2023
18:30 – ca. 20:15
Mozart-Saal
Performers
Quatuor Mosaïques
Erich Höbarth, Violine
Andrea Bischof, Violine
Anita Mitterer, Viola
Christophe Coin, Violoncello
Kevin Kenner, Hammerklavier
Grzegorz Frankowski, Kontrabass
Programme
Hyacinthe Jadin
Streichquartett Es-Dur op. 2/1 (1797)
Frédéric Chopin
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 2 f-moll op. 21 (Fassung für Klavier und Streichquintett) (1829/1836)
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Robert Schumann
Streichquartett A-Dur op. 41/3 (1842)
Subscription series
Quatuor Mosaïques
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Antichambria with Chopin
Frédéric Chopin was - contrary to what his exemplary virtuosity would suggest - not a »showman«, but a declared friend of the small frame. He preferred to perform in the intimate ambience of private salons and thus in close contact with his audience, which consisted mostly of rapt ladies. The Quatuor mosaïques, committed to historical performance practice, has therefore invited the American piano virtuoso Kevin Kenner on the fortepiano to interpret Chopin's second - but, according to the genesis, first - piano concerto in the way Chopin himself might have preferred: chamber-music-like in an original arrangement for piano and string quintet. The harmonious framework is provided by quartets by two pronounced »pianist-composers«: the French early Romantic Hyacinthe Jadin and Robert Schumann.