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Brahms and Bruckner both shared a fondness for “Gselchtes mit Knödel” – smoked meat with dumplings – but the similarities ended there. “Bruckner’s works are not compositions, they’re a fraud,” Brahms once remarked – and the antipathy was very much mutual. All the more intriguing, then, to set the two composers side by side, as in this chamber music evening. Bruckner is represented by his tender Intermezzo, rich in Ländler rhythms, while Brahms’s String Quintet No. 2 shifts between exuberance and melancholy. Opening the programme is the effervescent String Quintet No. 2 by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the Brahms Ensemble Berlin.
Artists
Brahms Ensemble Berlin:
Rachel Schmidt violin
Raimar Orlovsky violin
Diyang Mei viola
Julia Gartemann viola
Uladzimir Sinkevich cello
Programme
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quintet No. 2 in B flat major, op. 87
Interval
Anton Bruckner
Intermezzo in D minor
Johannes Brahms
String Quintet No. 2 in G major, op. 111
Additional information
Duration ca. 2 hours (incl. 20 minutes interval)
Chamber Music Hall
12 to 31 €
Introduction
19:30
Series Q: Ensembles of the Berliner Philharmoniker
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The Chamber Music tradition of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Chamber music means engaging in a dialogue between equals and creating a shared artistic identity as a group. Naturally, the musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker are passionate about this art form. Violist Julia Gartemann and cellist Knut Weber talk about their experiences.
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