Caroline Charrière
Quatuor Ophelia
for string quartet
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 12'
- Genre: contemporary
- Series: Swiss Composers Series
- Composed: 2005
Score and parts
CHF41.00
- Published: 2009
- Publisher: Editions Bim
- Movements:
- I. L’innocence (3')
- II. La blessure (3’35)
- III. La mort (1'10)
- IV. la paix (4’15’)
- I. L’innocence (3')
Caroline Charrière (1960-2018)
About Quatuor Ophelia
Reminiscent of a bird song
Ophelia, the heroine from Shakespeare, that touching figure of innocence hurt by Hamlet and in some way appeased by death. This is what I wished to express: the pure soul, the heartbreak, and finding salvation in death and the resulting peace that inevitably follows, reminiscent of a bird song. Caroline Charrière, Fribourg (Switzerland), Decembre 2007
Performances
October 24, 2021 | Basel, Switzerland.
Camerata Variabile.
October 23, 2021 | Stein am Rhein, Switzerland.
Camerata Variabile.
October 22, 2021 | Zürich, Switzerland.
Camerata Variabile.
October 21, 2021 | Fribourg, Switzerland.
Camerata Variabile.
November 30, 2019 | Concert de Commémoration | Freiburg, Switzerland.
Choeur de Jade,
Céline Latour-Monnier (conductor),
Christine Fleischmann (harp),
Sophie Marilley (mezzo soprano),
Eric Cerantola (piano),
Gabriela Jungo et Anne-Frédérique Léchaire (violin),
Céline Portat (viola),
Justine Pelnena-Chollet (cello),
Philippe Savoy (saxophone).