MOZART STRING QUINTETS

Repertoire

MOZART: String quintet No. 5 in D major, K. 593; No. 4 in G minor, K. 516

Artists

Amaury Coeytaux, violin
Loic Rio, violin
Laurent Marfaing, viola
Lise Berthaud, viola
François Kieffer, cello

Program

One of the great contemporary quartets, the Modigliani will be joined by the French violist Lise Berthaud, in what promises to be a fascinating astral conjunction.Mozart went a little further than Haydn in his exploration of the string quartet as he was the first to expand the membership of the group to five when composing his six extraordinary quintets with viola. Over three years, L’Auditori will present all of these special Mozart quintets. On this occasion, it’s the turn of quintet No. 4 (KV. 516) and No. 5 (KV. 593) composed in 1787 and 1790 respectively. One of the great contemporary quartets, the Modigliani will be joined by the French violist Lise Berthaud, in what promises to be a fascinating astral conjunction.