Freud und Leid On Tour

Boswiler Meisterkonzerte

Sun, 14 June 2026 17:00 Boswil, Alte Kirche Steven Isserlis
Direction and Cello Dénes Várjon
Piano

Tavener, Mozart, Kurtág and Schumann

Programme

John Tavener (1944–2013)
Eternal Memory for cello solo and strings

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major KV 415

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György Kurtág (*1926)
Circumdederunt / Schatten / Kroo Gyorgy in memoriam for cello solo

Robert Schumann (1810–1976)
Piano Quintet in E flat major Op. 44, version with string orchestra

Programme with interval
Running time: approx. 1.5 hours

About the programme

As a time-based art, music exists outside of memory only in the moment it is heard. And often not even then. The composer György Kurtág is a master of musical remembrance. Many of his pieces bear the addition “in memoriam”. With Kroó György in memoriam, Kurtág remembers a renowned Hungarian musicologist. Artistic partner Steven Isserlis in turn commemorates Kurtág's 100th birthday with this piece for solo cello.

With Eternal Memory for cello and strings, John Tavener explores the timelessness of both memory and of a future paradise. Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat major offers a contrast that is powerful and fully rooted in the here and now. In Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s festively elegant Piano Concerto in C major, the Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon can also be heard: a universal musician with exceptional technical and profound musical abilities.

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