Mendelssohn / Webern / Janácek: Eternal Beauty – Quartetto Eos

“Eternal Beauty” is the consequence of a musical elaboration and reflection on the theme of love, analyzed and discussed in the spheres of remembrance, idyll, and torment. It does not focus on a well-defined temporal field, but rather presents the musical realization of three stories elaborated between nineteenth and twentieth century, i.e. Janáček’s first string quartet (Kreutzer Sonata), Webern’s Langsamer Satz, and Mendelssohn’s Quartet No. 6.
In spite of their different origins, all compositions share a powerful emotional impact, and the almost obsessive alternation between contrasting colours and feelings, which are typical for humankind, leading the listener from a state of frailness and impotence to a series of openings to light and hope.