Superromantische morgen

For their romantic morning, Quatuor Arod chose Tchaikovsky’s First String Quartet, a piece that came about for not very romantic reasons: the composer was strapped for cash and picked up his pen. He needed only a few weeks for the four movements. The Andante is perhaps the most famous. None other than the writer Leo Tolstoy once sat next to Tchaikovsky during a performance of the quartet. This movement brought tears to his eyes. To conclude, the Arods play the slow movement from Dvořák’s Twelfth String Quartet. Romance in the morning, who wouldn’t get out of bed for that? In fact, it gets super-romantic during the morning series focusing on Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Brahms. The palette of these 19th-century composers offers a sampling of emotions, with a golden glow on sixteen strings.