The Carmel Quartet

Strings and More Season 2020-2021

Music Director Dr. Yoel Greenberg

Rachel Ringelstein violin - Tali Goldberg violin  - Yoel Greenberg viola - Tami Waterman cello

Family Portrait

 Presented by Dr. Yoel Greenberg

Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn)StringQuartet in E Flat Major

Felix MendelssohnStringQuartet in F Major, Op. 80

In contrast to the way Felix Mendelssohn’s music was universally celebrated, the talent of his sister Fanny was suppressed throughout her life. Even today her works are seldom performed, despite their outstanding merit and despite her huge influence on Mendelssohn’s life and work. This concert will present a performance of Fanny Mendelssohn’s rarely-heard String Quartet together with a unique work by Felix in which he gives expression to his unbearable grief at her untimely death.

Tel Aviv, Israel Conservatory Friday 6.11.20 at 11am

The Human Comedy

Presented by  Dr. Yoel Greenberg

Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 No. 2 The Joke

​Stravinsky 3 Pieces for String Quartet

Shostakovich 2 Pieces for String Quartet

Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, op. 95 Serioso –Finale movement

What is musical humour? Can musical notes tell jokes, and where is the clown in Stravinsky's quartet?

Tel Aviv, Israel Conservatory  Friday 01.01.21 at 11am

A Musical Homage

Without spoken presentation

Mozart String Quartet in G major, K. 387
György Kurtág Arioso – Homage à Walter Levin 85
Brahms String Quartet in C minor, Op. 51 no. 1

Between the first of the six quartets Mozart dedicated to Haydn, and Brahms’s first quartet, suffused with the spirit of Beethoven, we perform Kurtág’s Arioso composed in honor of Walter Levin’s 85th birthday. Levin, first violinist of the legendary LaSalle Quartet, passed away two years ago. He was one of the Carmel Quartet’s most inspiring teachers, and this concert is in homage to his memory.

Tel Aviv, Israel Conservatory  Friday 06.02.21 at 8pm

Strings on Screen

Presented by  Dr. Oded Erez

Shuli Waterman Viola

SchubertString Quartet in D Minor, D. 810 Death and the Maiden - Allegro

GreenwoodSuite from the soundtrack There will be blood

KorngoldString Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 34

BarberAdagio for String Quartet in B Minor

On string quartet music for the big screen, from quartets featured in films, through soundtracks for quartet to concert works by film composers.

Tel Aviv Israel Conservatory  Friday 23.04.21 at 11am

Who wrote the Kreutzer Sonata?

Presented by Dr. Yoel Greenberg

Beethoven String Quartetin F minor, op. 95 Serioso

JanáčekString Quartet no. 1 Kreutzer Sonata

Beethoven’s dramatic and powerful musical language influenced composers, writers and thinkers. In his famous novella The Kreutzer Sonata, named after Beethoven’s great work, Tolstoy gave expression to the powerful influences he found in the music. Leoš Janáček, one of Czechoslovakia’s greatest composers, responded in turn to Tolstoy’s literary masterpiece with his First String Quartet, which carries the title of the book.

Tel Aviv, Israel Conservatory  Friday 11.06.21 at 11am