Quatuor de Jérusalem

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

Mozart String Quartet No. 17 K. 458 “The Hunt”

Bartók String Quartet No. 6

Ravel String Quartet Op. 35

In a few words

The Jerusalem Quartet was formed more than twenty years ago, in 1993, on the benches of the Rubin Academy of Jerusalem. Together, they trained in the very particular craft of the string quartet with the Romanian-born violinist Avi Abramovitch. Success was not long in coming, both in Israel and internationally, and the doors of concert halls around the world opened to them. For this evening, they have chosen to perform 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 that emotional instability so characteristic of the musician. This will be followed by Bartók's sixth quartet, the last important piece composed by the musician before his exile to the United States. It intensely testifies to the inevitable approach of a farewell, which would prove to be definitive, to his homeland, and Ravel's youthful quartet, dedicated to his “dear master Gabriel Fauré” but already so revealing of an assertive personality.