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Camille Thomas / Boris Kusnezow / Gropius Quartett

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Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 15:30
The Gropius Quartett invites you to a chamber music festival with the world-famous cellist Camille Thomas and Boris Kuznetsov. At the beginning, the Gropius Quartet will perform a quartet by Joseph Haydn, which is not nicknamed »the joke« for nothing. Before the interval, Camille Thomas then plays works by composing cellists, a firework display of romantic melodies and virtuoso music that culminates in Boccherini’s quintet. In this quintet, the artists transport the audience to Madrid at night, while the concert... Read full text

Keywords: Chamber Music, Recital

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Musicians

Camille ThomasCello
Boris KusnezowPiano
Indira KochViolin
Friedemann EichhornViolin
Alexia EichhornViola
Wolfgang Emanuel SchmidtCello

Program

Streichquartett Es-Dur op. 33/2 »Der Scherz«Joseph Haydn
Ungarische Rhapsodie op. 68 für Violoncello und KlavierDavid Popper
Les Larmes de Jacqueline / aus: Harmonies des bois op. 76Jacques Offenbach
Romance op. 23Karl Yul’yevich Davidow
Am Springbrunnen / aus: Vier Stücke op. 20Karl Yul’yevich Davidow
Nocturne op. 14/1Auguste Franchomme
La Musica notturna di Madrid op. 30/6Luigi Boccherini
Klavierquintett A-Dur op. 81Antonín Dvořák
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