B3 French for Breakfast #3

Start your day in style with breakfast and exquisite French music played by your favourite Festival artists. Bon appétit!

Although Ravel dedicated his 1903 quartet to Fauré, the older master refused to write his own, believing that “this is a genre which Beethoven in particular made famous, and causes all those who are not Beethoven to be terrified of it”. Before his death in 1924, he completed this one and only quartet, a masterly tableau of autumnal colours and intricate melodic lines.

The concert is followed by a conversation with the artists led by Genevieve Jacobs

Program

Gabriel Fauré,  String Quartet in E minor op 121 (1924)
Allegro moderato
Andante
Allegro

Artists

Quatuor Van Kuijk
Nicolas Van Kuijk, violin
Sylvain Favre-Bulle, violin
Emmanuel François, cello
Anthony Kondo, viola