The entire string quartet oevre by Hans Rott und Hugo Wolf
The Quatuor Danel returns to Linz, after its magnificent Brucknerhaus début last year, with works by Hans Rott and Hugo Wolf, performing the entire string quartet oeuvre of two composers whose revolutionary artistic existences ended tragically: both died after an illness of many years' duration at the Lower Austrian lunatic asylum in Vienna-Alsergrund.
The C minor string quartet of Hans Rott, praised by his teacher Anton Bruckner as „a brilliant musician“ and his „best pupil“, represents an astounding symbiosis of a productive engagement with compositional tradition and a bold artistic vision, a jewel of Romantic chamber music, seldom performed even today. Two other precious rarities come from the pen of Hugo Wolf: the string quartet in D minor, at the opening of which he wrote a line from Goethe's Faust 1:“Entbehren sollst du, sollst entbehren“ (Thou shalt forgo, shalt do without), which seems prophetic in view of his own fate; and his Intermezzo, designated as „humorous“ as a contrast. Max Reger thought these pieces were „almost works of genius“, while describing the scintillating „Italian Serenade“ as „the most delightful work we possess in the genre of serenade“.
Hans Rott (1858–1884)
String Quartet in C minor (1876–77)
Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
Intermezzo in Eb major for String Quartet (1886)
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Hugo Wolf
String Quartet in D minor („Entbehren sollst du, sollst entbehren“) (1879–84)
Italianische Serenade in G major for String Quartet (1887)
Quatuor Danel
Marc Danel | Violin
Gilles Millet | Violin
Vlad Bogdanas | Viola
Yovan Markovitch | Cello