Zehetmair Quartet A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Rudolf Kolisch’s legendary quartet were perhaps the first whose members played their repertoire without sheet music, and this included Bartók and Schönberg string quartet works. Austrian Thomas Zehetmair, one of the most fascinating violinist personalities of our day, who is equally active as soloist and conductor, began his violin career at the age of 16, and only founded the string quartet 17 years later. True to the principle of Kolisch, they too perform all their works from memory. They learn a new programme every year with their focus on a far-from-easy 20th century repertoire. Their Budapest concert features a youthful Debussy masterpiece, one of the glittering prizes of the First Viennese School; Mozart’s Quartet in A major (this was Beethoven’s favourite, indeed he himself made a copy of it); and a real rarity, Paul Hindemith’s String Quartet No. 5, a work rich in references to the history of music and scholarly compositional solutions, which the Amar Quartet (with Hindemith taking the viola part) performed in 1923, just three days after its completion.