Maurice Steger with Kuss Quartett

Maurice Steger | recorder
Jana Kuss | violin
Oliver Wille | violin
William Coleman | viola
Mikayel Hakhnazaryan | violoncello

“The string instruments create an atmospheric, sweeping arc from life to death, and the recorder player Maurice Steger responds to this: desperate, screaming, crying, resigning; […]”
(Fono Forum, February 2025)

Program

Beethoven String Quartet B-flat major op. 18 No. 6, Allegro con brio

John Dowland If my complaints could passions move
John Adson Adson’s Ayre
Giovanni Coperario Gray’s Inn
Jacob van Eyck The English Nightingale from “Fluyten Lust-hof”
John Adson The Furies

Beethoven String Quartet B-flat major op. 18 No. 6, Adagio ma non troppo

Iris ter Schiphorst Sei gutes Muts

Bernstein Variations on an Octatonic Scale (1989) for recorder and violoncello

Karl Friedrich Weidemann Sonata F major op. 3 No. 3 for recorder and two violins

Beethoven String Quartet B-flat major op. 18 No. 6, La Malinconia. Adagio – Allegretto quasi Allegro

Vivaldi Concerto Il Gardellino D major for recorder and strings, RV 375