In their last concert of the 2023–2024 season, the inimitable and consummately professional Borusan Quartet is to play three works of German Romanticism: Robert Schumann’s harmonically adventurous String Quartet No 3 in A major (the last of the three quartets that make up his Opus 41, composed in 1842), Felix Mendelssohn’s 1843 Capriccio for String Quartet in E minor (Opus 81 No 3), and this same composer’s 1847 String Quartet No 6 in F minor, a four-movement work believed to have been written to honour the memory of his sister Fanny, who had died earlier that year. In fact, the composer himself passed away two months after completing this quartet.
Before the concert (from 19:00 to 19:30), there will be a talk by Aydın Büke and Serhan Bali.
Issue 67, December 2024
Beauty in the Wilderness
