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Quatuor Modigliani © Jérome Bonnet
Quatuor Modigliani © Jérome Bonnet

La belle époque

Quatuor Modigliani
Sat 24 Apr 2027 20:15 - 22:00
Sat 24 Apr 2027
20:15 - 22:00
  • Sat 24 Apr 2027
    20:15 - 22:00
    Grote Zaal
    From Tue 31 Mar 2026 12:00

Program

19:45 / Entreehal / Support

20:15 / Grote Zaal / Main program
Joaquín Turina La oración del torero 
Claude Debussy String Quartet  
César Franck String Quartet  

Credits

Quatuor Modigliani 
Amaury Coeytaux violin 
Loïc Rio violin 
Laurent Marfaing viola 
François Kieffer cello 

Unbridled imagination, French clarity and Spanish passion 

What makes Quatuor Modigliani a typically French ensemble is their distinctive sound. A sound that blossoms with passion in the quartet of Spanish-born Parisian Joaquín Turina and that lends a unique, authentic colour to the String Quartet of César Franck, the ‘Brahms of Wallonia’. Tonight’s program transports us to Paris around 1900, the era of the Belle Époque. It was the age of the enigmatic Erik Satie, of cabaret and vaudeville theatres, of Proust and Mata Hari, of bohemians and salon concerts, and the rise of Claude Debussy.  
 
In 1893, Debussy wrote his one and only string quartet. It marries elegance and French clarity with Debussy’s unbridled imagination as he broke away from the traditional rules of composition. The music has a warm, luminous sound, at times capricious, yet always direct and unadorned.  

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