Karvay & Hagen & the Turnovsky´s

This program brings together the pure beauty of Classical chamber music with the lyrical touch of early Romanticism. The concert opens with Franz Schubert’s charming String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 471 — a single-movement gem that reveals the young composer at the height of his melodic inventiveness. Schubert’s delicacy is followed by Mozart’s Duo in G Major, KV 423, one of the finest works written for violin and viola, in which both instruments intertwine as equal partners in a brilliant dialogue full of elegance and natural spontaneity.

At the center of the evening stands the rarely performed yet highly appealing Quartet in G Minor, Op. 73 by François Devienne. The unusual combination of bassoon with string trio creates unique tonal colors, while Devienne masterfully exploits the instrument’s lyrical qualities as well as its light virtuosity.

The second half of the program returns to Schubert, this time with his later String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 581, a work whose clarity, formal balance, and rich melodicism draw on the finest traditions of Viennese Classicism. The concert culminates in Beethoven’s String Trio in G Major, Op. 9 No. 1 — a composition in which the composer’s expressive power, dramatic architecture, and bold expansion of the Classical language come fully to the fore.

An exceptional ensemble — violinist Dalibor Karvay, violist Julia Turnovsky, cellist Julia Hagen, and bassoonist Štěpán Turnovský — promises a performance that offers not only technical brilliance but above all sensitive musical partnership and a profound immersion into the world of late 18th- and early 19th-century chamber music.

Franz Schubert
Smyčcové trio B dur, D. 471
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duo pro housle a violu č. 1 G dur, KV 423
François Devienne
Kvartet pro fagot, housle, violu a violoncello č. 3 g moll, op. 73
Franz Schubert
Smyčcové trio B dur, D. 581
Ludwig van Beethoven
Smyčcové trio G dur, op. 9, č. 1

Dalibor Karvay: violin
Julia Turnovsky: viola
Julia Hagen: violoncello
Štěpán Turnovský: basson