Minguet Quartett
Luigi Nono 100
The renowned Minguet Quartett celebrates the 100th anniversary of Luigi Nono's birth with a rendition of Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima. Inspired by Hölderlin’s poems to his beloved, this string quartet sketches a soundscape of the human soul. On the threshold of the audible, a delicate web of whispering sounds, transforming timbres and fleeting melodies emerges. There are silences between the notes that speak volumes. At first glance, this radical work is a challenge for performers and listeners. But anyone who surrenders to Nono's sensual world emerges as a new person.
The Italian composer found the key to the new in the old. For example, he based Fragmente-Stille on the 'enigmatic scale' of Verdi's Ave Maria, and drew inspiration from a string quartet by Beethoven. Just before the end, Nono quotes a chanson by Ockeghem, thus harking back to the roots of music history.
Programme
Johannes Ockeghem (ca. 1410-1497)
Chansons
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
‘Ave Maria. Enigmatic scale harmonised for 4 mixed voices’, from Quattro pezzi sacri
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
‘Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart’, from String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132
Luigi Nono (1924-1990)
Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima
image © Irene Zandel
