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- Pierre Boulez Saal
BERLIN STAATSKAPELLE STRING QUARTET & SARAH ARISTIDOU
OPHELIA SONGS
The mysterious character of Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet is at the center of the program presented by the Berlin Staatskapelle String Quartet and soprano Sarah Aristidou: Aribert Reimann’s adaptation of Brahms’s Ophelia Songs is juxtaposed with the Second String Quartet “And once I played Ophelia” by Australian composer Brett Dean, written in 2013 as a study for his opera Hamlet. Haydn’s “Emperor” Quartet and Smetana’s autobiographical From My Life bookend the program.
Cast
- Streichquartett der Staatskapelle Berlin
- Violin
- Wolfram Brandl
- Krzysztof Specjal
- Viola
- Yulia Deyneka
- Violoncello
- Claudius Popp
- Soprano
- Sarah Aristidou
Concert program
Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in C major Hob. III:77 "Emperor"
Johannes Brahms - Five Ophelia Songs WoO 22, Arrangement for Soprano and String Quartet by Aribert Reimann
Brett Dean - String Quartet No. 2 with Soprano "And once I played Ophelia"
Bedrich Smetana - String Quartet No. 1 in E minor "From My Life"
