The eighth Musikàmera Season continues with a double recital by the Bartholdy Quintet, the first stable ensemble for this type of instrument, formed by Anke Dill and Ulf Schneider on violins, Barbara Westphal and Volker Jacobsen on violas, and Gustav Rivinius on cello, five excellent German musicians whose work is helping to make works expressly written for this particular instrumental ensemble appreciated throughout Europe. The concert programme includes the performance of Due movimenti for string quintet by Alexander von Zemlinsky, a composer and conductor of fundamental importance in the Viennese musical world at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, closely associated with Gustav Mahler but also with Arnold Schönberg; it then continues with the Quintet op. It then continues with Quintet No. 29 by Ludwig van Beethoven, the only original quintet in Beethoven’s literature, and concludes with Quintet No. 1 Op. 18 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, in four movements, in which Mendelssohn proposes a form of lyrical monothematicism, whereby all the material that emerges after the opening melody derives from the original.
