Highly Concentrated and Yet Effortless

Translated:

Marburg. The Marburg Concert Society (Konzertverein) has once again gotten lucky. And it has the courage to prove that it can accept a program that contains only one work from the Classical repertoire along with two rarely heard compositions of the 20th century and even a contemporary piece. 

Alas this courage was not rewarded, because on Tuesday evening in the Marburg City Hall it was obvious there were many empty seats.

At the outset the four young musicians dedicated themselves to the last of more than 70 string quartets by Joseph Haydn, who practically invented this most important form of chamber music.

Highly concentrated, yet effortless, the Daedalus Quartet made music not just with this classical masterpiece, but also with Igor Stravinsky's "Trois Pieces pour quatuor a cordes," written in 1914.

The "Flight from the Labyrinth" was characterized by dramatic, extremely sharp contrasts in a quartet written four years ago by the 1970-born Scottish composer David Horne for the Daedalus Quartet - for a good reason, as he used the myth of the ensemble's name as inspiration.

Daedalus is said to have invented sculpture and the labyrinth. But he is mostly known for flying towards freedom on wings he constructed himself - together with his son Icarus, who, however, flew too close to the sun and sank into the sea.