Chamber concert: “The Brunettes”

»Don’t miss any opportunity to play music with others, in duos, trios, etc. This will make your playing fluent and lively«. Robert Schumann once wrote this in his collection of »Musical House and Life Rules«. So we’re really looking forward to presenting some charming works to the audience at this concert in a small group, changing the instrumentation again and again so that each player can show off his or her virtuosity. Max Reger once said that his music should be »eternally adorable, cheerful, fabulously simple and clear« – and that also applies wonderfully to his little serenade from 1915. Numerous allusions to Bohemian folklore characterise Erwin Schulhoff’s sometimes edgy Concertino, which he wrote in 1925 and said it depicted a shepherd’s flute seller playing in the streets of Prague. This is followed by a melancholic but expressive lament: Frank Bridge dedicated one of his most stirring and beautiful miniatures to a nine-year-old girl who died in 1915 during the dramatic sinking of the passenger steamer »Lusitania«. A very personal joy of playing then emerges in his own arrangements of songs and dances from Chilean, Japanese and Hungarian folklore: music from the countries of origin of our musicians, the music that is very close to our hearts. And it is exactly this multicultural diversity that we love to bring to our listeners – because Schumann also made an apt remark on this subject: »Listen diligently to all folk songs! They are a treasure trove of the most beautiful melodies and open your eyes to the character of different nations.«

Tickets from 25.08.2025 10 a.m.