Giacomo Puccini
String Quartet movement D major (1880–1883)
Ottorino Respighi
»Il Tramonto« (1918) for voice and string quartet based on words by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Giacomo Puccini
»Crisantemi« for string quartet (1890)
Franz Schubert
Quartet movement C minor (1820)
Franz Schubert
»Mignon« (1821/1995) based on texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
compiled and transcribed for soprano and string quartet by Aribert Reimann
Arnold Schönberg
»Entrückung« from: string quartet No. 2 F-sharp minor (1907/1908) based on a text by Stefan George
- Ursula Hesse von den Steinen soprano
- Alvaro Palmen violin
- Anna Isabel Haakh violin
- Martina Horejsi-Kiefer viola
- Daniel Raabe violoncello
“Only those who know longing know what sorrows me!” The words of Mignon, the enchanting girl from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister novel, captivated the young Franz Schubert; in several Lieder, he lent expression to their emotional life. In Stefan George’s verses, the lyrical I dissolves completely in music: “I dissolve into tones – circling – weaving.” With Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Crisantemi’, the string quartet is laying flowers on the grave of a genius who died young: with his lover he looks into the sunset one more time.
