Everything is out of the ordinary in the history of this outstanding quartet. Four students meet at the Toho music academy in Tokyo, then they are all admitted at the same time at the Juilliard School, where in 1965 their quartet is founded. Some forty years later, they offer the same brilliant, personal and dynamic style, the same inordinate musical mastery, in spite of the international renewal of their members; only one of the founding members remains, viola player Kazuhide Isomura. The tremendous range of their repertoire, the unrivalled quality of their instruments – four Stradivarius – crown that unique venture. For their sixth performance, here at the.Théâtre de la Ville, the Tokyo Quartet has selected pieces from three centuries of chamber music, with compositions by Mozart, Beethoven and Polish composer Karol Szymanowski, whose opera King Roger was recently produced in Paris. Gérard Mannoni
MOZART Quartet in G major, K 387 SZYMANOWSKI Quartet n° 1, op. 37 BEETHOVEN Quartet n°13 in B flat major, op. 130
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