Le quatuor Nautilus fait son carnaval

The Quatuor Nautilus is made up of amateur musicians who have completed their conservatoire studies. Around it, the group has built an orchestra of seasoned musicians who have chosen not to make music their professional career.

The first part of the programme traces the history of the string quartet, from its early major composers Mozart and Haydn to the modernity of Ravel. Yet beneath the classicism of Haydn and Mozart, you will find in their quartets, *The Fifths* and *The Dissonances*, elements that foreshadow modernity. During the first movement of his quartet, Haydn sets the perfect fifth interval running through all the voices, through harmonies that were original for the period. Mozart goes even further with an opening Adagio built on dissonances, extremely modern harmonies that could have been written 150 years later. Ravel serves as a bridge towards Saint-Saëns's *Carnival of the Animals*, a great festive piece of the French repertoire that has shaped generations of musicians, presented in the version with narrator, whose text was written by Francis Blanche and lightly revised by Emmanuel Ménard.

So the programme is:

Mozart - String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K. 465, "The Dissonances" - 1st movement

Haydn - String Quartet Op. 76 No. 2 in D minor, "The Fifths" - 1st movement

Ravel - String Quartet in F major - 1st movement

Saint-Saëns - The Carnival of the Animals

By the Quatuor Nautilus & friends

Booking required (bookings open one month before the concert date)