Zero gravity
Quatuor Bozzini plays the 4th String Quartet by Swiss composer Jürg Frey
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Thu 24 July 2025, 22.00
Stadtkirche
Jürg Frey: 4. Streichquartett (2018–20)
Quatuor Bozzini
Patrick Stadler (Saxofon / Saxophone)
Marcus Weiss (Saxofon / Saxophone)
Quatuor Bozzini
As with Cassandra Miller, the Quatuor Bozzini also has a lengthy artistic partnership with Jürg Frey, lasting over two decades. The Swiss composer is a member of the Wandelweiser group, which stands for a very special aesthetic – its character imprinted with extremely fragile, often very slow, and seemingly endless music. Jürg Frey's fourth string quartet, premiered digitally by the Bozzini Quartet in 2021, exemplifies this. The composer remarks: ‟My music is slow, sometimes static, often delicately fluctuating between standstill and movement. Little happens at a standstill. In the ambiguity of this standstill, I discovered more and more the energy to bring movement into my music. I follow this energy and the music continues chapter by chapter, without spectacle, without effort. It seems to be a simple activity. And yet, after more than an hour, this music has arrived somewhere else."
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and CALQ (Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec)