February 21st-24th, 2013

HBS Meets Quatuor Mosaïques

Musical leader: string quartet Quatuor Mosaïques, consisting of Erich Höbarth, Andrea Bischof, Anita Mitterer and Christophe Coin

February 21st, 2013
Kids Only-concerts, Den Bosch (private)

February 22nd, 2013
Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh, Utrecht
20:00, introduction at 19.15
www.vredenburg.nl

February 23th, 2013
Felix Meritis, Amsterdam
20:15
www.felix.meritis.nl

February 24th, 2013
Nieuwe Kerk, Den Haag
14:30, introduction in Dutch at 13:30 (€1,50)
www.ldt.nl

For this programme, Holland Baroque Society invites not one artistic director, but a complete string quartet: Quatuor Mosaïques. The members of this world‑famous string quartet play on original and lead the strings of Holland Baroque Society. This results in a confrontation between an old‑world baroque orchestra and a modern string quartet. Around 1770, new ensemble strengths became fashionable, such as the string quartet. It is unclear for which type of ensemble Mozart wrote his divertimenti: for a traditional string orchestra; for two violins, a viola and a double bass; or for the modern string quartet? We examine all possibilities: string quartet, string orchestra and concerti grossi with Quatuor Mosaïques as concertino and HBS as ripienist. An encounter which examines the transition between baroque and classicism.