Release Date: 13 March 2026
Label: Outhere / La Dolce Volta
Packaging Type: Hard Back book
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3760419360436
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Echoes of Vienna
Description
Vienna was in the grip of serious political unrest that forced many of its artists into exile when Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) composed his Second String Quartet in 1933, first performed the following year in the Austrian capital. In it he celebrated, before it faded away, the vitality of a musical school of which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) had been one of the founders more than a century and a half earlier, and which Anton Webern (1883-1945) had helped to usher into modernity. It is this lineage that the musicians of the Quatuor Hermes (The Hermes String Quartet) highlight through a twilight-tinged programme in which each work bears witness to a fascinating narrative power and could be understood as an expression of a farewell.
Talich Quartet
Vassilena Serafimova; Quatuor Ardeo
Cedric Pescia
Quatuor Hermes
Raphael Jouan; Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est; David Reiland
Michel Portal; Michel Dalberto
Florian Noack
Dana Ciocarlie
Plamena Nikitassova; Les Elemens
Patrick Him, Kirsten Docter, Shuai Want, John Diodati, Paul Vaillancourt, Catherine Ramirez, Jennet
Nicolas Altstaedt; Ian Bostridge; Olli Mustonen
Leipziger Streichquartett
Giovanni Sollima; Il Pomo d'Oro; Vanni Moretto
Georg Nigl; Alexander Gergelyfi
Ganassi Consort
Anna Besson; A Nocte Temporis; Louis Creac'h; Manuela Bucher; Ronan Kernoa
