2. Kammerkonzert «Facetten der Freiheit»

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With works by Joseph Haydn, Dmitri Shostakovich and Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven challenged contemporary listeners with the uncompromising novelty of his Razumovsky quartets. While the impetuous free spirit threw off the shackles of convention with the Third of the Quartets op. 59 , Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 deals with the many years of oppression and suppression by the CPSU, and the autobiographical reference is unmistakable from the very opening of the work with the motif of his musical initials D-Es-C-H. The starting point of this program is a work by the "father of the string quartet", Joseph Haydn, whose quartet op. 50 No. 5 bears the nickname "The Dream".

Instrumentation: Franz Berlin (violin), Hyejung Park (violin), Raphael Tietz (viola), Sebastián Escobar Avaria (violoncello)