On the surface, Joseph Haydn's Quartet in C major op. 33/3, the so-called 'Bird Quartet', has a cheerful, almost exuberant mood - full of wit, lightness and compositional sophistication. Haydn plays here with timbres and motifs reminiscent of bird calls and combines charm with artful structure - a work that embodies the playful spirit of his 'galant' creative period. Erwin Schulhoff then takes the genre into the 20th century in his "Five Pieces" from 1923: His suite of stylized folkloristic dances from different national traditions offers cheeky music with a penchant for chromaticism, pizzicato and noisy playing that has its finger on the pulse of the times. Composed ten years later, Walter Piston's first string quartet displays even more late Romantic traits, including a dreamy adagio. Beethoven's monumental C sharp minor quartet op. 131 comes across as pulsating and liberated from any formal constraints. A final highlight of the Streichquartettfest.

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