Concert at 10:00 with Opus13 and the Kuss Quartett
Concert at 12:30 with the Fabrik Quartet

Edvard Grieg's only surviving string quartet is as jagged as a Norwegian fjord. The motto, which appears in variations throughout the work, is taken from his "Spielmannslied" (minstrel song) based on a text by Ibsen. Native folk music influences the themes and harmonies. Folkloristic elements are also integrated into the classical quartet movement in Bartók's fourth quartet. The "Bartók pizzicato", which also appears in Lachenmann's music, is demanded for the first time with "string bangs against the fingerboard wood". The "Grido" quartet is, according to violinist Irvine Arditti, "a driving, energetic piece with a mixture of Lachenmann's own extended techniques and more 'normal' music". The title "Grido" seems to refer to the Italian word for "cry", but is an acronym formed from the first names of the four members of the Arditti Quartet, for whom the work was composed in 2000/01.