Jerusalem Quartet A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

“The Jerusalem is one of the most exciting string quartets to emerge for many years, its members’ outstanding technical accomplishment and musical insight belying their youth,” wrote a leading journal about the quartet. The Israeli formation, which comprises Alexander Pavlovsky and Sergei Bresler on violin, Ori Kam on viola and Kyril Zlotnikov on cello, have toured and conquered North America and Europe, regularly winning over audiences with their harmony, virtuosity and expressivity.
The quartets of Béla Bartók presented here are known for their particular complexity. They represent in themselves a type of radical redefinition of the genre: a summing up of the achievements of those who have gone before and a marking out of new trends. As far as the 1st string quartet goes, it was Bartók’s clear endeavour to elevate folk music motifs into the canon of composed music while, at the same time, create a new interpretation of the fugue genre. The 3rd quartet is far tighter, more dissonant and experimental not only as regards tonal systems but also in the field of performance technique modalities. The New York Times was particularly generous in its praise of the Jerusalem Quartet’s interpretation of the 5th string quartet earlier this year: it is a piece alive with structural and form bravura, and must be performed in an extraordinarily complex rhythmic medium.