Widmann meets Mozart in Prague

By Frank Kuznik, 25 May 2021

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“Their sound is round, pleasant yet erudite, and strikingly seamless”

Reviewed at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague on 22 May 2021

Haydn, String Quartet no. 21 in E flat major, Op.17 no.3, Hob III:27

Widmann, String Quartet no. 3 "Hunt Quartet"

Mozart, Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581

Jörg Widmann, Clarinet

Schumann Quartett

Sublime Mozart from Ottensamer and the Schumann Quartett at Klosters

Roy Westbrook, 28th July

These charming miniatures sounding overparted snatched from domestic service and pressed into public performance.

****1

Schumann Quartett's Beethoven journey at Suntory Hall

Nahoko Gotoh, 12th June

At Suntory Hall's annual chamber music festival, the Schumann Quartett embarks on a marathon of performing all of Beethoven’s string quartets over six concerts.

****1

Schumann Quartet: an evening of delight – and frightening intensity

Stephen Pritchard, 27th December

Haydn, Shostakovich and Smetana laid bare at Wigmore Hall.

****1

Exzellentes Schumann Quartett in Erlangen

Michael Vieth, 28th September

Die Reihe „ unerHÖRT“ besticht ein weiteres Mal, nun mit Kompositionen von Helena Winkelman, Arvo Pärt und Aribert Reimann.

****1

Dantes Höllenfahrt: Lucia Ronchettis Inferno an der Oper Frankfurt

Alexandra Richter, 2nd July

Die Koproduktion von Oper und Schauspiel Frankfurt wird pünktlich im Dante-Jahr 2021 zur Uraufführung gebracht.

*****

Sorgfalt und Homogenität: Das Schumann Quartett in Zürich

Rolf Kyburz, 8th April

Das Ensemble glänzte bei Haydn mit Wohklang und perfekt tarierter Dynamik und mit einer makellosen Technik bei Tchaikowsky.

****1

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Frank Kuznik

Frank Kuznik is the former Editor-in-Chief and Culture Editor of The Prague Post, Central Europe’s premier English-language weekly newspaper. He currently divides his time between Prague and his hometown in the US, Cleveland, where he covers northeast Ohio's dynamic classical music scene. In Prague he is an habitué of the Rudolfinum, National Theater, State Opera and other storied classical music venues, and an unabashed fan of Czech music.