Quatuor Alfama - Quartettsatz

Quatuor Alfama: Elsa de Lacerda, violin; Céline Bodson, violin; Kris Hellemans, alto; Renaat Ackaert, cello

Arnold Schoenberg: Presto in C major (c. 1895); Anton von Webern: Langsamer Satz (1905); Hugo Wolf: Serenade (1887); Felix Mendelssohn: Capriccio (1843); Piotr Ilich Tchaïkovski: Quartettsatz; Benjamin Britten: Alla Marcia; Jean Sibelius: Andante festivo; Sergei Rachmaninov: Romance (andante espressivo, 1889)

Since its creation in 2004, Alfama quartet has made quite a breakthrough thanks to its subtlety, elegance and dynamism. Selected by parProQuartet in 2006, these four young people work under the guidance of the Danel Quartet, and have worked with Walter Levin (LaSalle Quartet), Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet), Heime Muller (Artemis Quartet) and Eberhard Feltz. Even if they have already been recorded (a.o. for the Leo Brouwer Quintet with guitarist Denis Sung-Hô, FUG524), this is in reality their first great premiere: a sensitive and intelligent exploration of « orphan » pages of the quartet repertoire: gems signed by famous names ranging from Mendelssohn to Britten, via Tchaïkovski, Wolf, Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Schoenberg and Webern.

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