Kelemen Quartet A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

“The most electrifying string-quartet concert in recent memory.” This is the conclusion of an American music critic, otherwise notorious for his fault-finding, concerning the remarkable qualities of the ensemble. Founded in 2010, the Kelemen Quartet have reaped considerable success in the United States, as well as in Europe and China. The deep commitment of the artists – with Barnabás Kelemen and Katalin Kokas on violin, Gábor Homoki on viola and László Fenyő on cello – is evident in a programme comprising three works that all demand extraordinary levels of concentration. It is widely acknowledged that the string quartets of Béla Bartók are milestones in 20th century classical music. The confessional, sometimes philosophical, sometimes meditative recitatives of the 2nd string quartet strongly resembles the voice of the classic tragedy genre. The structure of the 4th string quartet, built with mathematical precision, represented a kind of creative turning point in the life of the composer and at the same time marked an even more varied and original repertoire of performance technique. In the 6th and final string quartet, a cheery enthusiasm for life and irony descends into a grotesque struggle, with the increasingly feeble, ever-more faint lyricism broken by a motto-like constantly-repeating melody, to ultimately crumble to nothing.