Silent Songs into the Wild is a unique performance for a string quartet, 4 singers, 3 performers, piano and electric guitar. Together, they take the viewer on a journey to a universe of classical songs, a universe of Schubert’s Lieder, full of themes which close to the composer’s heart, themes such as vagrancy and departure, eternal estrangement and solitude.
The string quartet which accompanies the performers is none other than the APOLLON MUSAGETE QUARTETT, whom you can also catch in a recital at Flagey in April (more information HERE).

+++ Find out more about this project on the website of BOZAR 
+++ List of Lieder played during the show 
+++ Practical information

PROGRAMME
Franz Schubert’s Lieder:
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D 118
Rastlose Liebe, D 138
Meeresstille, D 216
Heidenröslein, D 257
Der Wanderer, D 489
Der Tod und das Mädchen, D 531
Nachtstück, D 672
Suleika I, D 720
Dass sie hier gewesen, D 775
Im Frühling, D 882
Das Wandern, Tränenregen, Mein!, Der Jäger, Der Müller und der Bach (Die schöne Müllerin, D 795)
Gute Nacht, Gefrorne Tränen, Der Lindenbaum, Erstarrung, Auf dem Flusse, Die Krähe, Die Post, Der Wegweiser, Der Leiermann (Winterreise, D 911)
Ständchen, Abschied, Das Fischermädchen, Die Stadt, Der Doppelgänger (Schwanengesang, D 957)
Impromptu, op. 90/2, D 899
String Quartet no. 14, D 810, “Death and the Maiden” (excerpts)
String Quartet no. 15, D 887 (excerpts)

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
>>> Center for Fine Arts – BOZAR (Rue Ravensteinstraat 23, 1000 Brussels) – see map
>>> Tuesday 7 February 2016 – 20:00
>>> €60 > €16 
(online boxoffice)

Apollon Musagète Quartett 
The unusual name of the group – founded in Vienna in 2006 by four Poles – is an homage to a ballet by Igor Stravinsky dating from 1927/28 in which the god Apollon dances with three muses who symbolise, in turn, poetry, rhetoric and dance. Taking their cue from this god and ‘conductor of muses’, the Apollon Musagete Quartet aims to bring together all art forms. 
In 2008, the group’s reputation was enhanced by the award of a first prize and three special prizes at the Munich ARD International Music Competition. This prize was yet another to add to an already impressive trophy cabinet, containing prizes won primarily in Austria and Italy, where they performed to great success. The group also played at London’s Wigmore Hall and the Berlin Philharmonic Hall.
The group finds its musical inspiration not just in the works which it plays, but also in the many collaborators with whom it so enjoys playing. The musicians with whom the group has played to date include: Peter Cropper, Anner Bylsma, Giulano Carmignola and  Ferenz Rados.
In Poland, the quartet has been aided by the award of a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
The first disc by the Apollon Musagete Quartet was released by OEHMS Classics in 2009. It includes works by Haydn, Szymanowski and Brahms.
The quartet does not shy away from breaking out of the classical music world: you can hear them on the latest album by Tori Amos, Night of Hunters.
In 2013, the Appolon Musagète Quartett has been given the honour of launching the WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI YEAR in Belgium with a performance of the Polish composer’s String quartet (this year marks one hundred years since Lutosławski’s birth). As DeSingel points out, listening to Lutosławski’s String quartet is “an extraordinary experience, if only because the music is never the same from one version to the next. Indeed, Lutoslawski grants musicians such a degree of freedom in how they play the notes that the balance between the four instruments is different each time”. Lending a special personal note to their tribute, the Apollon Musagète Quartet has composed an original piece with the eloquent title Multitude in memoriam W. Lutoslawski.
+++ www.apollon-musagete.com