grasp and let go - Micro Concert #15 of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

About this Event

Maurice Ravel’s masterful string quartet, premiered on 5 March 1904, is now regarded as one of the most brilliant chamber music works of the young Mendelssohn due to the brilliance of its musical flashes of inspiration. All four instruments are involved in the sonically sophisticated, playful search for lightness in intensity, for elegant gentleness despite all the atmospheric density. Without ever becoming coarse, the performance marking ‘animé’ (lively), which is common in French music, occasionally reveals its proximity to the animalistic, to the lustful animal in man, especially in Ravel.