Extending String Quartet: La Serenissima + een nieuwe Wantenaar

The Belinfante Quartet is "incandescent interplay and a passion for experimentation" (NRC). This young quartet, who participated in the SQBA Residency a few years ago, has broad musical interests and effortlessly spans the centuries. Nine hundred years separate Hildegard von Bingen and Mathilde Wantenaar, whose new work, commissioned by the String Quartet Biennale, will be performed. Rhiannon Randle composed Baile for the Belinfantes.

Extending String Quartet: La Serenissima + een nieuwe Wantenaar

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Fri 30 Jan14:15 - 15:30

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Bimhuis, Piet Heinkade 3, 1019 BR Amsterdam

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Broad musical interest that effortlessly spans 9 centuries

Two program components fit perfectly together: O virtus sapientiae by Hildegard von Bingen and the final movement, La Serenissima , of Britten's Third String Quartet. Hildegard lived her entire life in the Rhineland; Venice remained terra incognita for her. But Venice's honorific, "La Serenissima," evokes associations with the key characteristic of Hildegard's music: serenity. For centuries, diplomacy and justice brought Venice peace – concepts Hildegard refers to as "the virtue of wisdom." That Britten, in his very last notes, written in Venice, like Hildegard, achieved a deep spirituality, brings the piece full circle.

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