Resonanzen der Moderne 2. Asasello Quartett: Werke von Schönberg, Nono und Kozhevnikov

• Luigi Nono: Fragmente - Stille, an Diotima for string quartet (1980)
• Rostislav Kozhevnikov: String Quartet No. 4 (2008)
• Arnold Schönberg: String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (1936)

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The two-part project Resonances of Modernism connects modernism and the first avant-garde of the early 20th century with the second, the post-war avant-garde, as well as with the present day, which is regarded as both postmodernism and its overcoming.

The selection of works by Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), Luigi Nono (1924-1990), Peter Ablinger (*1959), Olga Rayeva (*1971) and Rostislav Kozhevnikov (*1981) shows the continuity of musical experimentation - the restless exploration of new territory, both in sound and in the way of making music. The ambivalence between breaking with tradition and returning to it becomes palpable.

The project ties in with the rich musical tradition of the city of Bonn, as the only string quartet by Luigi Nono, Fragmente - Stille, an Diotima (on poems by Friedrich Hölderlin), was premiered at the Bonn Beethovenfest in 1980.

Asasello Quartet:
Rostislav Kozhevnikov (DE) - violin
Barbara Streil (CH) - violin
Justyna Śliwa (PL/DE) - viola
Teemu Myöhänen (FI/DE) - cello

Founded in Basel and now based in Cologne, the Asasello Quartet is one of the most exciting and stirring chamber music ensembles of our time. It is not only the playing culture of the group, which came together in 2000 in the Basel chamber music class of Walter Levin, the first violinist of the legendary LaSalle Quartet, that is unusual. The Asasello Quartet has already ventured outside the musical box with its name (Asasello comes from the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov).

In 2010, the Asasellites received the Music Prize of the Association of German Concert Directors for their extraordinary and demanding program, which includes the concert cycle of Arnold Schönberg's string quartets. An extensive collection of CD recordings, its own concert series 1:1 - Schon gehört? numerous world premieres and participations in international festivals and competitions, workshops with pupils and students as well as the exploration of special artistic formats, for example in the staged performance of Morton Feldmann's 2nd String Quartet. String Quartet by Morton Feldman (Cologne, Musikfabrik), the cyclical performance of all 23 Mozart quartets (Venice, Auditorium Santa Margherita) or the completely analog recording of Anton Webern's six bagatelles (in the chamber music hall of Deutschlandfunk, produced in 2011/12) document a sheer tireless creative frenzy that has been going on for years.

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