The ninth Musikàmera Season continues at the Sale Apollinee of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice with a double recital by the German Vision String Quartet: founded in 2012, it has rapidly established itself as one of the most refined and versatile string quartets of its generation. Its members – Florian Willeitner and Daniel Stoll on violin, Leonard Disselhorst on cello and Sander Stuart on viola – expertly move between the pages of the great chamber music repertoire, involving listeners with unusual and fascinating sonorities. The programme that the quartet brings to Venice opens with Langsamer Satz, a piece by Anton Webern characterised by extreme motivic and expressive concentration: Webern succeeds in condensing infinite nuances of feeling and as many suggestions into a few pages, with a refined timbral balance that highlights, one by one, all four instruments, without excessively prolonging himself; it then continues with the only string quartet composed by Maurice Ravel, the Quartet in F major dedicated to Gabriel Fauré, the first great work by an already mature Ravel even though he was not yet 30 years old, and closes with the Quartet no. 1. 1 op. 51 No. 1 by Johannes Brahms, with its austere intonation and Beethoven-like dramatic tension.
