NotenTexte | Danse Macabre. Ein musikalisch-literarischer Abend – CANCELLED!

Programme

Maurice Ravel
Sonatine (arr. Carlos Salzedo)

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Streichquartett Nr. 6 f-Moll, op. 80 - 1. Allegro vivace assai

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Streichquartett Nr. 6 f-Moll, op. 80 - 3. Adagio

André Caplet
Conte Fantastique (basierend auf Edgar Allen Poe`s "The Mask of the Red Death")

Jehye Lee, Violin

Julita Smoleń, Violin

Frederike Jehkul-Sadler, Cello

Shira Majoni, Viola

Magdalena Hoffmann, Harp

Heiko Ruprecht, Speaker

Antonio Pellegrino, Konzeption

Heiko Ruprecht as narrator

about the programme

There is no escaping the bond between life and death, and nothing brings this realisation to general awareness with such force as the depredations of war and pestilence. Since the Middle Ages epidemic plagues have inspired gruesome depictions from visual artists: the danse macabre became a full-fledged commonplace in its own right. Similarly Edgar Allen Poe’s Masque of the Red Death, inspired by his experience of an 1831 cholera outbreak in Baltimore, pictures Death as a wily conqueror of every feeble attempt to negate it. André Caplet’s bleak, ghostly recounting of this theme is one of the most evocative pieces of Impressionist chamber music – and a pièce de resistance for harpists. In contrast, Mendelssohn’s F minor Quartet confronts us with a subjective confession of sorrow at the loss of a loved one. Composed after the death of his sister, this “Requiem for Fanny” is perhaps the darkest music in his entire oeuvre.