Doppelgänger I

The Danish String Quartet finally presents the long-awaited first part of the Doppelgänger project (cancelled during the coronacrisis). Danish composer Bent Sørensen drew inspiration from Schubert's last string quartet, one of his most complex compositions reminiscent of a symphony. Sørensen's musical language is characterized by a unique sound concept with ethereal echoes and repetitions, in which the polyphony of the Renaissance finds an expression somewhere between Schönberg's atonality and the warm tones of Romanticism. Finally, the quartet performs an arrangement that gave rise to the project's name. Der Doppelgänger comes from Schubert's cycle Schwanengesang, where a man walks past the house of a former lover. The tormented figure he sees at the door turns out to be his younger self.

Flagey, Klarafestival, ECM Records