{"id":22440,"date":"2018-01-04T14:39:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T13:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/04\/schumann-quartet-review-fleetness-humour-and-dexterity\/"},"modified":"2018-01-04T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T13:39:22","slug":"schumann-quartet-review-fleetness-humour-and-dexterity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=22440","title":{"rendered":"Schumann Quartet review \u2013 fleetness, humour and dexterity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wigmore Hall, LondonThe German quartet were marvellously engaging in this all-Haydn programme featuring some of the composer\u2019s most striking worksOriginally hailing from Cologne, the Schumann Quartet consists of three brothers \u2013 violinists Erik and Ken, and cellist Mark Schumann \u2013 and the Estonian-born violist Liisa Randalu. They recently held a residency at Schloss Esterh\u00e1zy in Eisenstadt, Austria, where Haydn was the Esterh\u00e1zy\u2019s kapellmeister. Four of the composer\u2019s quartets formed the programme for this captivating concert, which emphasised the often startling originality of Haydn\u2019s contribution to the genre and the freshness and immediacy of the Schumanns\u2019 playing. This was music-making of the highest order.They opened with the Quartet in G, Op 33, No 5. Haydn wrote it in 1781 after an intense period of operatic composition, and an air of theatricality hovers over its successive solos and ensembles. The slow movement is, in essence, an aria of lamentation for the first violin, its arching melody and closing cadenza sustained with beguiling poise and intensity by Erik Schumann. The subsequent scherzo, however, finds Haydn at his most impudent and experimental, pulling the listener off balance with rhythmic dislocations and jolting pauses, and the fleetness, humour and dexterity of the Schumanns\u2019 playing was marvellously engaging. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/jan\/04\/schumann-quartet-review-salute-to-haydn-was-music-making-of-the-highest-order\" target=\"_blank\">Schumann Quartet review \u2013 fleetness, humour and dexterity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wigmore Hall, LondonThe German quartet were marvellously engaging in this all-Haydn programme featuring some of the composer\u2019s most striking worksOriginally hailing from Cologne, the Schumann Quartet consists of three brothers \u2013 violinists Erik and Ken, and cellist Mark Schumann \u2013 and the Estonian-born violist Liisa Randalu. They recently held a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}