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‘The lyricism and airy limpidity of the<br />
four performers give these movements a<br />
profundity and unexpected allure.’<br />
Diapason<br />
Esmé Quartet<br />
Eloquent. Spellbinding. Monumental. Exquisite. How else<br />
can we describe the Esmé Quartet? Based in Germany, this<br />
ensemble launched its international career by winning first<br />
prize at the 2018 International String Quartet Competition at<br />
London’s Wigmore Hall. The ensemble then embarked on<br />
a whirlwind year of concerts in North America, Hong Kong<br />
and Japan.<br />
For their <strong>Australia</strong>n debut the musicians play works which are<br />
the epitome of youth: an early work of Webern overflows with<br />
romantic invention, while Mendelssohn’s second String Quartet<br />
blazes with the heart-on-sleeve emotion of a teenage<br />
genius; and emerging <strong>Australia</strong>n composer Jack Frerer’s<br />
Spiral Sequences is an exhilarating roller-coaster ride. Add<br />
to this Claude Debussy’s only string quartet, brimming with<br />
rhythmic and harmonic exuberance.<br />
Esmé comes from the medieval French word for ‘beloved’. Be<br />
among the first to discover why everyone loves Esmé.<br />
‘The quartet has such tenderness, such virtuosity, such musicality, that I have<br />
tried to keep them as a strictly traditional offering – except that I’ve asked<br />
them to include a piece by <strong>Australia</strong>n composer Jack Frerer which is fast,<br />
furious and then gentle, a wonderful way for the quartet to engage with<br />
<strong>Australia</strong>n music and audiences.’<br />
Paul Kildea<br />
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