{"id":158853,"date":"2026-02-02T17:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=158853"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:01:51","slug":"grasp-and-let-go","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/concert\/grasp-and-let-go-158853\/","title":{"rendered":"grasp and let go"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maurice Ravel (1875 \u2013 1937)<\/p>\n

String Quartet in F major<\/p>\n

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    Allegro moderato. Tr\u00e8s doux<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Assez vif. Tr\u00e8s rythm\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        Tr\u00e8s lent<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          Vif et agit\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          Maurice Ravel’s masterful string quartet, premiered on 5 March 1904, is now regarded as one of the most brilliant chamber music works of the young Mendelssohn due to the brilliance of its musical flashes of inspiration. All four instruments are involved in the sonically sophisticated, playful search for lightness in intensity, for elegant gentleness despite all the atmospheric density. Without ever becoming coarse, the performance marking \u2018anim\u00e9\u2019 (lively), which is common in French music, occasionally reveals its proximity to the animalistic, to the lustful animal in man, especially in Ravel.<\/p>\n

          The son of a Swiss railway engineer and a Catalan woman, he is strongly reminiscent of the music beyond the Pyrenees \u2013 from a French perspective. In an underlying glow and restrained fire, as is often characteristic of Spanish music, instrumental singing and rhythm form a striking combination. The finale requires quick reflexes, both from the performers and the listeners. Even though it is often compared to impressionist watercolours, this music has nothing to do with blurriness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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