Esmé Quartet | HKAF 2022

演出介紹

Grand emotions on an intimate scale, with an award-winning young ensemble

The Esmé Quartet take their name from an old French word meaning “beloved”, and in two concerts at the Hong Kong Arts Festival these four German-trained Korean musicians explore the wide emotional range of the European classical quartet tradition. Their first concert combines passionate 19th century masterpieces by Beethoven and Mendelssohn with the Viennese wit and lush melodies of Korngold—the Austrian composer who subsequently went on to write some of the great classic Hollywood film scores. Then they visit Russia and France, where Tchaikovsky’s deeply romantic First Quartet complements music by the composer Tchaikovsky revered above all others—Mozart. The sensuous musical imagination of Debussy makes for a ravishing contrast at the heart of this programme—and with music as beautiful as this, it only takes four players to create a whole universe of emotion.

演出詳情

• Esmé Quartet | HKAF 2022
• Ticketing
• Date: 7 - 8 Mar 2022
• Time: 19:30
• Venue: Concert Hall, HK City Hall
• Address: 5 Edinburgh Pl, Central

Repertoire

Mar 7 (Mon)

• Korngold | String Quartet No 2 in E-flat major, Op 26
• Mendelssohn | String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 13
• Beethoven | String Quartet No 8 in E minor, Op 59, No 2, “Razumovsky”

Mar 8 (Tue)

• Mozart | String Quartet No 21 in D major, K575
• Debussy | String Quartet in G minor, Op 10
• Tchaikovsky | String Quartet No 1 in D major, Op 11

ESMÉ QUARTET

• Wonhee Bae
• Yuna Ha
• Jiwon Kim
• Yeeun Heo

Remarks

• Approx. 1 hr 50 mins incl. one interval

The above sources are from HKAF 2022 official website