Regulars at the Museum
There is no other string quartet to which the Museum Society is as loyal as the towering Artemis Quartet. Several times, in thirty years now, the line-up has changed, the incomparable sound has had to be redeveloped, the approach to the music, points of view, interpretations. From the very beginning, the quartet has also made it a point to animate composers with its perfection and to write new works. To the museum, the four musicians, who teach in Berlin and Brussels, bring a central work by Benjamin Britten, in addition to the well-known Adagio by Samuel Barber and a new interpretation of the (contrary to its title) immortal quartet "Death and the Maiden" by Franz Schubert. The String Quartet op. 36 was written in parallel with the opera Peter Grimes in 1945 and was premiered in a concert celebrating the 250th birthday of the composer Henry Purcell. Reminiscent of the Baroque model, in Britten's incomparable style, is the third movement, a chaconne.
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