Concert #2 – Vocal Music, Thomas Adès, Katalin Kàrolyi, Ruisi Quartet, Graham Mitchell

Date
November 12th
Replay
Available until April 22, 2025
The second portion of Thomas Adès’s residency is devoted to vocal music, juxtaposing Haydn, Bartók and brilliant creations from recent decades.

Mr Adès, an incomparable musician, conducts, composes and performs on the piano works from the past and present, all with equal enthusiasm. After the Viennese classicism of the String Quartet by Joseph Haydn, the true founding father of the genre in the 1760s, the essence of the traditional vocality of Magyar folksongs is felt in Béla Bartók’s Eight Hungarian Folksongs.


Stretching this lineage to the extreme, György Kurtág showcases the poetic expression of the Hungarian language in the seven songs to poems by Dezso Tandori for soprano and violin, S.K. Remembrance Noise. Lastly, Növenyék, a French work by Mr Adès, brings all the musicians together with Hungarian mezzo-soprano Katalin Kàrolyi, a leading light in contemporary music for almost thirty years.


Programme:


  • Joseph Haydn, String Quartet, Op. 20, No. 3
  • Béla Bartók, Eight Hungarian Folksongs
  • Oliver Leith, A Different Fantasie, for quartet
  • György Kurtág, S.K. Remembrance Noise, for soprano and violin
  • Thomas Adès, Növenyék, for quartet, piano, bass and mezzo-soprano, (French premiere)