delian::quartett

Adrian Pinzaru - violin
Andreas Moscho - violin
Lara Albesano - viola
Hendrik Blumenroth - cello

"Tanz durch die Zeit"

With commentary and works by Joseph Haydn, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Strauss, Kurt Weill, and others

William Byrd - "Sing joyfully" from Cathedral Music, arranged for string quartet by Stefano Pierini
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, op. 26

This concert will be recorded by NDR Kultur!

The opening half presents dance pieces from across music history as a lively, entertaining hosted revue of around fifty minutes.

The shorter second half offers a supposedly "more serious" counterpoint. Once again, a vast span of time - this time from the Renaissance to the 20th century - passes in the blink of an eye. William Byrd's joyfully shimmering "overture" leads with surprising seamlessness into Korngold's brilliant Second String Quartet - the last great child prodigy of Romanticism - and the effect is almost cinematic. The music ranges from winking cheerfulness to Viennese melancholy, and the final movement is, of course, a waltz.