The Digital Hall - Online Concerts!
Carmel Quartet is proud to present high quality online concerts with fascinating lectures!
"The quartet delivered an inspired and technically flawless performance. A perfect replacement to the live concert we miss so dearly"
Prof. Emeritus Jehoash Hirshberg,
Department of Musicology, Hebrew University
La Contadina Online!
Comic Opera in Two Acts
Composed by the 18th-century composer Johann Hasse
*Collaboration with the Jerusalem Opera and Piccolo Festival
Yizhar Karshon Presentation & Harpsichord
Gabriele Ribis Baritone and Director
Niva Eshed Frenkel Soprano
Filippo Rotondo Actor
Disguise, deceit, delightful success and dismal failure, cunning rustics, gullible aristocrats and Turkish pirates - all these combine to produce a sharp social critique in Hasse's delightful comic opera, one of the mid-eighteenth century's greatest hits.
A Life in Music Online!
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Smetana String Quartet No. 1 From My Life
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8
The string quartet does not usually lend itself to program
music, but when it does, it is often deeply personal and autobiographical, as in these two masterpieces.
Songs of Praise Online!
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59 No. 2 Rasumovsky
Ives Scherzo for String Quartet
Haydn String Quartet Op. 76 No. 3 Emperor
When the most intimate of ensembles, the quartet,
plays the most extrovert of genres, national anthems,
there is always an interesting story to be told…
Mozart and Salieri
Online!
Carmel Quartet and Malenki Theatre actors join forces to perform Pushkin's play "Mozart and Salieri"!
A human story of envy, rage and admiration in the face of unimaginable genius.
The wonderful Italian pianist Pietro Bonfilio will join a quartet to perform musical interludes by Mozart and Salieri, among them the exciting lacrimosa from the Requiem.
Who wrote the Kreutzer Sonata? Online!
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Beethoven
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 Serioso
Janáček
String Quartet no. 1 Kreutzer Sonata
Beethoven’s dramatic and powerful musical language influenced composers, writers and thinkers. In his famous novella The Kreutzer Sonata, named after Beethoven’s great work, Tolstoy gave expression to the powerful influences he found in the music. Leoš Janáček, one of Czechoslovakia’s greatest composers, responded in turn to Tolstoy’s literary masterpiece with his First String Quartet, which carries the title of the book.
The Human Comedy
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Online!
Haydn
String Quartet Op. 33 No. 2, The Joke
Stravinsky
3 Pieces for String Quartet
Shostakovich
2 Pieces for String Quartet
Beethoven
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 Serioso (Finale)
What exactly is musical humor? Different composers have different answers! We shall play along with Haydn, visit Stravinsky’s circus, and discover how the tragic becomes comic with Beethoven and Shostakovich.
Family Portrait
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Online!
Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E Flat Major
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 80
In contrast to the way Felix Mendelssohn’s music was universally celebrated, the talent of his sister Fanny was suppressed throughout her life. Even today her works are seldom performed, despite their outstanding merit and despite her huge influence on Mendelssohn’s life and work. This concert will present a performance of Fanny Mendelssohn’s rarely-heard String Quartet together with a unique work by Felix in which he gives expression to his unbearable grief at her untimely death.
Baroque Avante-Guarde
Online!
Yizhar Karshon Presentation and Cembalo
Ophira Zakai Theorbo
Marco Uccellini - Bergamasca for two violins andcontinuo
Dario Castello - Sonata No. 10 for two violins and continuo
Tarquinio Merula - Ciaccona
Antonio Vivaldi - La Folia
C.P.E. Bach - Sanguines und Melancholicus
Johan Sebastian Bach - Concerto in D minor for Harpsichord BWV 1052
Presented by Yizhar Karshon, one of Israel’s most prominent baroque musicians, we will explore the virtuosity, emotional extremes and depth of the music written in that period, and perform some of the great masterpieces by Bach, Vivaldi, Castello, etc.
