Quatuor de Jérusalem

Jerusalem Quartet The Jerusalem Quartet celebrates Mozart, Bartók and Ravel.

Jerusalem Quartet

The Jerusalem Quartet celebrates Mozart, Bartók and Ravel.

Mozart: String Quartet No. 17 K. 458 « La Chasse  »

Bartók: String Quartet No. 6

Ravel: String Quartet Op. 35

In a few words

It was on the benches of the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem that the Jerusalem Quartet was formed more than twenty years ago, in 1993. Together, they trained in the very particular craft of the string quartet under the Romanian-born violinist Avi Abramovitch. Success was not long in coming, in Israel and internationally, and the doors of concert halls around the world opened to them.

For this evening, they have chosen to give us Mozart and his Op. 17, the fourth of the quartets dedicated to Haydn and an immense masterpiece of intimate chamber music, rich in subtleties and imbued with the emotional instability so characteristic of the composer. It is followed by Bartók's Sixth Quartet, the last major work composed by the musician before his exile to the United States. It bears intense witness to the inexorable approach of a farewell, which would prove to be final, to his native country; and Ravel's youthful quartet, dedicated to his “dear master Gabriel Fauré” but already so revealing of a strongly affirmed personality.