FAURÉ PIANO QUARTET

Sunday, 17 January, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Monday, 18 January, 2010 at 8 p.m.

Subscription Concert No. 3

“Chamber music is the only true form of music and the most authentic expression of a personality,” insisted Gabriel Fauré. Having taken its eponym’s guiding principle to heart, the Fauré Piano Quartet is now widely regarded as one of the leading chamber groups in the world. Within a short space of time it has conquered the great concert halls of London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Hamburg, Milan, Buenos Aires and elsewhere. “They attract superlatives wherever they go,” wrote The Strad following a concert at London’s Wigmore Hall, while the Süddeutsche Zeitung praised them for a performance that “brought tremendous pleasure by highlighting interpretative details that had scarcely ever been heard before.” The ensemble was formed in Karlsruhe in 1995 to mark the sesquicentenary of Fauré’s birth and was soon winning national and international awards, including the 2008 “ECHO” Classics Chamber Music Prize and London’s Parkhouse Award.

Dirk Mommertz, piano
Erika Geldsetzer, violin
Sascha Froembling, viola
Konstantin Heidrich, cello

Program
Mahler:
Quartet in A Minor “Quartettsatz”
Fauré:
Quartet in C Minor, Op. 15
Brahms:
Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25

Season Sponsor          
Mr. F. R. Matthews, Q.C.

Season Co-Sponsors

Concert Co-Sponsors
Clara and Tema Blackstone
Bev Clark, Associate Broker,

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