With the Diotima Quartet, Sandrine Piau lends her delicate timbre to Schoenberg’s second quartet, a masterpiece that puts into play the crucial questions raised by the meeting of words and strings. By bringing together the works of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, this programme reveals a three-sided panorama dedicated to the grand musical inventions of Vienna at the start of the 20th century.

Sandrine Piau soprano

Quatuor Diotima
Yun Peng Zhao violin
Guillaume Latour violin
Franck Chevalier viola
Pierre Morlet cello

Programme
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Six Bagatelles op. 9 for string quartet

Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Operatic suite for string quartet, with soprano

Anton Webern
Langsamer Satz “Schmerz immer, Blick nach oben”

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Quatuor n° 2 on F # minor, with soprano, op. 10