The "Jerusalem Quartet" is a guest in the Tölzer Kurhaus.
Due to the Corona rules, musicians even play their program twice.
Bad Tölz
– 24 hours earlier in Lisbon and in February, for example, in the Elbphilharmonie: The “Jerusalem Quartet”, which was founded 25 years ago and has won many awards, is currently touring through Europe’s concert halls and made a guest appearance in the Tölzer Kurhaus on Sunday, and is one of the world’s best ensembles and is praised for its warm, full, almost human sound.
For musicians and organizers, the concert business has been in the dark for two years as a result of the corona pandemic. This applies to the guests from Israel as well as to the "Klangerlebnis eV" association headed by Christoph Kessler, who repeatedly succeeds in bringing such top-class artists to Bad Tölz. The 2G rule and 25 percent occupancy currently demands a lot of flexibility and accommodation from musicians, organizers and music lovers: The quartet therefore played its program twice, and the audience had to show up earlier or later depending on the seat number. Are Corona requirements a big impertinence? Hardly if you consider for comparison under what terrible external conditions Dmitri Shostakovich once composed,who, during Stalin's reign of terror, had to live with the almost unbearable fear for years, like many other artists and intellectuals, that he would be attacked, denounced, arrested and murdered at any time. This left deep marks on his soul and his work.
Concert recorded on BR Klassik
The Jerusalem Quartet has a special relationship to Russian music and to Shostakovich's string quartets. Three of the musicians were born in the former Soviet Union. The eighth string quartet opus 110 was not composed until 1960 during a stay in Dresden. The ensemble masterfully expressed its very different moods between irony and pain, its ambiguity and mysteriousness. With the terrible personal fate of complete deafness and the associated social isolation, the seriously ill Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his late string quartets at the end of his life and broke into a new dimension of music. with seriousness,With variable playing and fabulous precision, the "Jerusalem Quartet" penetrated this complicated musical cosmos and gave the audience a touching experience.
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The "Jerusalem Quartet", which was founded 25 years ago and has won awards, delighted the audience.
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After the long applause had brought them back to the stage several times, the likeable artists thanked them with a delightful encore from a string quartet by Josef Haydn, the founder of this genre. Alexander Pavlovsky and Sergei Bresler (violin), Ori Kam (viola) and Kyril Zlotnikov (cello) form the “Jerusalem Quartet”, whose name stands for the city in which the founding members once studied together. Because the name could also be interpreted as a political statement on the divided city, they were sometimes criticized. Wrongly so, as the overwhelming majority of music lovers are convinced: especially in the country of the perpetrators, where the musicians from Israel are always happy to perform and are showered with ovations. The concert was recorded by BR Klassik.“Klangerlebnis e. V.” on its website. The next concert at the Kurhaus with the "Rolston Quartet" from Toronto will take place on March 6th. (R Bannier).
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