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Repertoire FAURÉ QUARTETT
 

Programmes
2024/2025

The quartet has one new program with works only by female composers:

Program I FEMMES FORMIDABLES

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel -  Piano Quartet A flat major
Dora Pejačević -  Piano Quartet D minor op. 25
Mel Bonis - Piano Quartet No. 1 B flat major op. 69

The obstacles with which these female composers had to struggle throughout their lives can be seen in sayings and quotations that need no further comment. For example, Camille Saint-Saëns wrote after hearing Mel Bonis' music: "I would never have believed that a woman was capable of writing something like this. She knows all the tricks of our trade". Abraham Mendelssohn, father of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn, wrote to his daughter: "Music may become a profession for him, while for you it can and should only ever become an ornament, never the fundamental bass of your being and doing." It is fortunate that Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Dora Pejačević and Mel Bonis were not dissuaded from composing by these statements: Their piano quartets prove that their music is far more than "ornament" or a copy of the work of their male contemporaries.

Variations are possible, e.g.:
Fanny Hensel - Piano Quartet A flat major
Mel Bonis - Piano Quartet No. 1 B flat major op. 69
Robert Schumann - Piano Quartet E flat major op 47
Or
Fanny Hensel - Piano Quartet A flat major
Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Quartet op 2
Robert Schumann - Piano Quartet E flat major op 47

Program II FAURÉ QUARTETT & SOPRANO ANNETTE DASCH

Brahms - Piano Quartet C minor op. 60: 1st movement
Mahler  - Ich ging mit Lust
Mahler - Wenn die schönen Trompeten blasen
Brahms -  Piano Quartet C minor op. 60 2nd movement
Brahms -  Piano Quartet C minor op. 60 3rd movement
Mahler - Erinnerung Mahler I Rheinlegendchen
Wagner - Wesendonck Lieder
Brahms - Piano Quartet C minor op. 60 4th movement
Mahler - Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
Mahler - Scheiden und Meiden

Additionally, they keep these programs:

Program III CLAIRE DE LUNE
Fauré -  Claire de Lune, op. 46 No. 2 *
Fauré - Les Berceaux, op. 23 No. 1 *
Fauré - Notre Amour, op. 23 No. 2 *
Fauré - Mandoline, op. 58 No. 1 *
Chausson - Piano Quartet A major op. 30
Fauré - Piano Quartet C minor op. 15 or Piano Quartet G minor op. 45
*arrangement Dietrich Zöllner

PROGRAM IV MELODIE UND GESANG/MELODY AND SONG

Fauré I Claire de Lune, op. 46 No. 2 *
Fauré I Les Berceaux, op. 23 No. 1 *
Fauré I Notre Amour, op. 23 No. 2 *
Fauré I Mandoline, op. 58 No. 1 *
Dvořák I Piano Quartet D major op. 23
Brahms I Piano Quartet A major op. 26
*arrangement Dietrich Zöllner

PROGRAM V LIED UND GESANG/SONG ANS SUFFERING

Schubert - Adagio and Rondo Concertante F major D 487
Reger - Piano Quartet no. 1 D minor op. 113 or no. 2 A minor op. 133
Brahms - Piano Quartet C minor op. 60

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