Hans Werner Henze-4th Quartet
Live Performance. Venice Biennale 2009
Kreutzer Quartet
(peter sheppard skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde)
Henze’s 4th Quartet is one of the most dramatically and emotionally ambitious quartets since Beethoven, yet is comparatively unknown. The second movement, one of Henze’s beloved colloquys with other composers (Vitali, Corelli, Telemann all come to mind), is an exquisite revisiting of William Byrd, surely one of the most beautiful bits of string writing…