The final evening of the Streichquartettfest has almost achieved cult status. What makes it special is that the audience doesn’t sit in rows, but at tables with drinks and snacks. You get to experience the musicians not only playing their instruments, but also engaging in conversation. And the programme is also out of the ordinary:

With all six quartets of the Streichquartettfest, the evening highlights the various styles of the unique artistic genre of the string quartet, which, even after some 250 years, has lost none of its significance or fascination.
From the time of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, we will hear a string quartet by his friend Josef Mysliveček, who was undoubtedly closest to Mozart both stylistically and personally. Much of Mysliveček’s music “sounds like Mozart.” The great visionary György Ligeti composed his 11-part “Nocturnal Metamorphoses” in a retro style, describing them himself as “old-fashioned, different,” yet demonstrating his compositional virtuosity and humor in an inexhaustible manner. The quartets have also selected works that they commissioned themselves or that were composed for them, such as those by the New Zealand composer and violinist Salina Fisher, the British composer and violist Sally Beamish, or Ernst von Siemens Prize winner Marko Nikodijevic.

Concert with an intermission
; duration: approx. 2 hours