Quartets at the summit – Beethoven 250
Hagen Quartet
Chamber Music
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
7.30 pm, Rougemont Church
So much has been achieved between the first six Quartets Op. 18 dedicated to Prince Lobkowitz and the last visionary quartets, written in a state of complete deafness and seemingly engaging in a dialogue with the afterlife – with an audience that Beethoven knew would take several generations to really hear what he was trying to say! The monumental Opuses 131 and 132 are brought to us in Rougemont by three brothers and sister from Salzburg who have been performing as a quartet for almost forty years, together with German violinist Rainer Schmidt (whose services the Gstaad String Academy was fortunate enough to secure this year).
Hagen Quartett (Salzburg)
Lukas Hagen, Violin
Rainer Schmidt, Violin
Veronika Hagen, Viola
Clemens Hagen, Cello
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131 | 36' |
| — interval — | |
| String Quartet Ni. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 | 39' |
| 100' | |
| CHF 80/60/40 |