Quatuor Ébène & Cuarteto Casals

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The Barcelona Quartet Biennale begins with a program full of musical crossovers. In Reflections on the theme B-A-C-H, Sofia Gubaidulina extracts a theme from The Art of Fugue by J. S. Bach, which will play a central role in this year's Biennale. Variations are explored in a short work, with a certain spectral air, which is, above all, a great homage to the late Baroque master.

W.A. Mozart’s String Quartet in G major, K. 387, known as "Spring," is part of a series of six quartets that ​​Mozart dedicated to the father of string quartets, Joseph Haydn, who was a friend of his. Mozart composed his “Spring” quartets in 1782, a year after the premiere of Haydn’s String Quartets Op. 33, which had greatly impressed Mozart. The “Spring" quartet, written towards the end of the composer's life, is a work of great exhibition clarity.

Brahms' String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat major, Op. 67 is a rather lively and jovial composition, which Brahms created with the intention of moving away from the seriousness of his First Symphony, which premiered just one week after the quartet.

Program

Cuarteto Casals

• Sofia Gubaidulina: Reflections on the theme B-A-C-H (2002) 7'

Quatuor Ébène

• W. A. Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387 (1782) 29'
• Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat major, Op. 67 (1875) 36'

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