Published on November 25, 2024 at 1:34 p.m. / Modified on November 25, 2024 at 1:34 p.m.
The Vevey Arts and Letters season celebrates its 100th anniversary with a sustained series of concerts. Like his eclectic but chosen tastes, artistic director François Margot is keen to vary the repertoires and pleasures. After the integral of Suites for cello alone of Bach magnificently served by Jean-Guihen Queyras last weekend, it was the turn of Irish pianist Finghin Collins, winner of the 1999 Clara Haskil Competition, to bring together musician friends for a series of three concerts intended to highlight Gabriel Fauré – on the occasion of the centenary of his death – and the Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford.
On Saturday, the Strada Quartet opened the evening with Fauré’s final opus written shortly before his death at age 79: the Quartet in E minor. Here we have an austere work, not easy it must be said, which reflects a reduction in strength and the concentration of the musical subject. It is as if Fauré, suffering from deafness in his old age, was digging a twilight furrow as his imminent death approached.
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