Established in 2007, the "Strings and More" series aims to enrich the concert experience by placing the compositions performed within a wider cultural contex. The series is directed by the quartet’s violist, Dr. Yoel Greenberg, head of music department at Bar-Ilan University. The other quartet members enrich the explanations with theatrical excerpts and literary examples.
Family Portrait
Presented by Dr. Yoel Greenberg
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.
The Human Comedy
Presented by Dr. Yoel Greenberg
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.
Online Concert!
The concert will be broadcast live from the Jerusalem Music Center
Tuesday, February 2 at 7pm.
A Musical Homage
Without Presentation
Mozart
String Quartet in G Major, K. 387
György Kurtág
Arioso – Homage à Walter Levin
Brahms
String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51 No. 1
Between the first of the six quartets Mozart dedicated to Haydn, and Brahms’s first quartet, suffused with the spirit of Beethoven, we perform Kurtág’s Arioso composed in honor of Walter Levin’s 85th birthday. Levin, first violinist of the legendary LaSalle Quartet, passed away two years ago. He was one of the Carmel Quartet’s most inspiring teachers, and this concert is in homage to his memory.
Strings on Screen
Presented by Dr. Oded Erez
Shuli Waterman Viola
Schubert
String Quartet in D Minor D. 810 Death and the Maiden - Allegro
Greenwood
Suite from the soundtrack There will be blood
Korngold
String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 34 - Scherzo
Barber
Adagio for String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11
On string quartet music for the big screen, from quartets featured in films, through soundtracks for quartet to concert works by film composers.
Who wrote the Kreutzer Sonata?
Presented by Dr. 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.