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Fri 18:00 | Zürich
10 | 05 2024
Zunftkonzerte Zürich Lavatertage
Mozart, Dvorak
Sat 19:30 | Zürich
11 | 05 2024
Zunftkonzerte Zürich Lavatertagre
Schostakowitsch
Sun 16:00 | Zürich
12 | 05 2024
Zunftkonzerte Zürich Lavatertage
Sat 19:30 | Zürich
22 | 06 2024
Von der Skulptur zur Musik - Musikpodium Zürich
Marti, Marti
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“The Belenus Quartet is one of the most promising string quartets in Switzerland. Their exciting vitality, the intensity and focus of their ensemble playing, the sensitivity and shades of nuance in their performance, and their brilliantly powerful virtuosity are breath-taking!”  Stephan Goerner, Carmina Quartet

The Quartet

Belenus is the Celtic god of the arts and has been the namesake of the Belenus Quartet ever since its foundation in 2004. The Quartet’s membership has been unchanged since 2014. Hitherto the Belenus Quartet has primarily performed in Switzerland and its neighbouring countries, its repertoire ranging from the early Haydn quartets to contemporary compositions. The Quartet is also renowned for its unusual crossover projects and collaborations with chamber music partners including Valentin Erben, Claudius Herrmann, Thomas Grossenbacher, Anna Malikova, Benjamin Engeli, Werner Bärtschi, Fabio di Casola and the Szymanowski Quartet. In 2016, for example, it performed a tribute to Billie Holiday to great acclaim with the eminent Swiss composer and saxophonist Daniel Schnyder at the famous St Moritz Jazz Festival. The Belenus Quartet’s CD recordings are testimony to its musical virtuosity and versatility, encompassing works by Haydn, Bartok, Schubert, Bärmann, Schumann and Shostakovich, as well as Daniel Schnyder’s String Quartet No. 4.

The Quartet has received artistic inspiration from Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) and Claudius Herrmann (Gringolts Quartet). In addition, the group has attended master classes given by Walter Levin (LaSalle Quartet), Oliver Wille (Kuss Quartet), Natalia Prishepenko (Artemis Quartet), Eberhard Feltz (Hanns Eisler School of Music, Berlin) and Valentin Erben (Alban Berg Quartet). Between 2008 and 2012 the Belenus Quartet benefitted from the guidance of Stephan Goerner (Carmina Quartet) and from 2009 to 2014 it completed a course in chamber music under Isabel Charisius (Alban Berg Quartet) at Lucerne School of Music.

At the 9th International “Franz Schubert and Modern Music” Competition in 2015, the Belenus Quartet was awarded both First Prize and the Audience Prize. As a finalist in the 2013 Migros Kulturprozent Chamber Music Competition, the Quartet was accepted onto Migros’s concert agency for talented new performers. In addition, in 2012 it won First Prize at both the Interpretation Competition for Contemporary Music at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and the Kiwanis Competition. In the same year it was awarded Third Prize atf the Hans Schaeuble Foundation Competition. In 2011, 2012 and 2013 it was a prize winner at the ORPHEUS Swiss Chamber Music Competition and in 2012 the Quartet was awarded a special prize for the best Haydn interpretation at the 1st Sandor Vegh International String Quartet Competition.

CDs

Repertoire

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Bartók, Béla
(1881-1945)

String Quartet No. 6 Sz114

String Quartet No. 4 Sz91

Beethoven, Ludwig van
(1770-1827)

Streichquartett Nr. 7 in F-Dur Op. 59 Nr. 1

Streichquartett Nr. 11 in f-Moll Op. 95

String Quartet No. 8 in E minor Op. 59 Nr 2

String Quartet No. 1 in F major Op. 18 No. 1

String Quartet No. 2 in G major Op. 18 No. 2

String Quartet No. 3 in D major Op. 18 No. 3

String Quartet No. 4 in C minor Op. 18 No. 4

String Quartet No. 5 in A major Op. 18 No. 5

String Quartet No. 6 in B♭ major Op. 18 No. 6

String Quartet in F major Op. 14 No. 1 (after the Piano Sonata)

String Quartet No. 10 in E♭ major Op. 74 (Harp)

String Quartet No. 15 in A minor Op. 132

Streichquartett No. 16 in F major Op. 135

Boccherini, Luigi
(1743-1805)

String Quartet in C minor Op. 2 No. 1

Brahms, Johannes
(1833-1897)

String Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 51 No. 1

String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

Crusell, Bernhard Henrik
(1775-1838)

Klarinettenquartett in Es-Dur Op. 2

Derungs, Martin
(*1943)

Op. 103 "memory" Streichquartett über eine 12-Ton Reihe von Hans Schaeuble

Dutilleux, Henri
(1916-2013)

"Ainsi la Nuit" for String Quartet

Dvorak, Antonin
(1841-1904)

String Quartet No. 12 in F major Op. 96 (American Quartet)

Flury, Richard
(1896-1967)

Streichquartett Nr. 1

Grieg, Edvard
(1843-1907)

String Quartet in F major, unfinished

Haydn, Joseph
(1732-1809)

Streichquartett in Es-Dur Op. 33 Nr. 2 "Der Scherz"

Streichquartett in D-Dur Op. 76 Nr. 5

Streichquartett in G-Dur Op. 77 Nr. 1

Streichquartett "Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze"

String Quartet in B major Op. 33 Nr. 1

String Quartet in G major Op. 76 No. 1

String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 (Quinten)

String Quartet in D minor Op. 103

Hefti, David Philip
(*1975)

String Quartet No. 1: „Ph(r)asen“

Hensel-Mendelssohn, Fanny
(1805-1847)

String Quartet in E♭ major

Honegger, Arthur
(1892-1955)

Streichquartett Nr. 2, H. 103

Janáček, Leoš
(1854-1928)

String Quartet No. 1 (Kreutzer Sonata)

String Quartet No. 2 (Intimate Letters)

Krenek, Ernst
(1900-1991)

String Quartet No.6 Op.78

Kurtág, György
(*1926)

12 microludes for String Quartet op. 13 "Hommage à Mihály András"

Marti, Cécile
(*1973)

Streichquartett "Trapez"

Streichquartett "Ellipse"

Marti, Heinz
(*1934)

String Quartet "Ossessione"

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix
(1809-1847)

String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13

Streichquartett Nr. 3 in D-Dur Op. 44 Nr. 1

Streichquartett Nr. 6 in f-Moll Op. 80

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
(1756-1791)

Divertimento in D major KV 136

String Quartet No. 2 in D major KV 155

String Quartet No. 14 in G major KV 387

String Quartet No. 15 in D minor KV 421

Streichquartett Nr. 4 in C-Dur KV 157

String Quartet No. 16 in E♭ major KV 428

String Quartet No. 17 in B♭ major KV 458 "The Hunt"

Adagio and Fugue in C minor KV 546

String Quartet No. 22 in B♭ major KV 589

Divertimento in F major KV 138

Streichquartett Nr. 23 in F-Dur KV 590

Perez-Ramirez, Marco Antonio
(*1964)

Streichquartett "Primitive Dream"

Ravel, Maurice
(1875-1937)

String Quartet in F major

Schnittke, Alfred
(1934-1998)

String Quartet No. 3

Schnyder, Daniel
(*1961)

String Quartet No. 4 "Great Places"

Schoeck, Othmar
(1886-1957)

Streichquartett Nr. 2, Op. 37

Schostakowitsch, Dmitri
(1906-1975)

String Quartet No. 3 in F major Op. 73

String Quartet No. 7 in F♯ minor Op. 108

Schubert, Franz
(1797-1828)

Streichquartett Nr. 10 in Es-Dur D87

String Quartet No. 8 in B♭ major D112

String Quartet No. 11 in E major D353

String Quartet No. 12 in C minor D703 (Quartettsatz)

String Quartet No. 15 in G major D887

String Quartet No. 14 in D minor D810 "Death and the Maiden"

String Quartet No. 13 in A minor D804 "Rosamunde"

Schumann, Robert
(1810-1856)

String Quartet No. 3 in A major Op. 41 No. 3

Szeghy, Iris
(*1956)

Aria

Tschaikowski, Peter
(1840-1893)

String Quartet No. 1 in D major Op. 11

Ullmann, Viktor
(1898-1944)

Streichquartett Nr. 3 Op. 46

Webern, Anton
(1883-1945)

Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett Op. 5

Langsamer Satz für Streichquartett

Six Bagatelles for String Quartet Op.9

Weinberg, Mieczyslaw
(1919-1996)

Capriccio Op. 11

Aria Op. 9

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