Inspiration Mozart – Beethoven 250
Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet
Chamber Music
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
7.30 pm, Gsteig Church
Mozart was the first composer to grasp the expressive potential that can be achieved by combining the piano with a string trio. Although he was to have few subsequent followers – the Romantics (with a few brilliant exceptions such as Schumann) preferred the more massive (and perhaps more balanced) architecture of the piano quintet – he produced two masterpieces in Vienna in 1785 and 1786 that immediately set the bar very high.
Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet
Nora Chastain, Violin
Truls Svane, Cello
Silvia Simonescu, Viola
Friedemann Rieger, Piano
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) | |
| Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 493 | 30' |
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 16 | 30' |
| — interval — | |
| Robert Schumann (1810-1856) | |
| Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47 | 30' |
| 110' | |
| CHF 80/60/40 |