Chamber concert: String sextet

Date & Time

Sun, Apr 27, 2025, 17:00

Venue

Remarkable leaps and bounds for the chamber music playing that our orchestra members love: Borodin was actually a full-time chemist and physician, but his passion for music constantly rekindled, including from 1859 in Heidelberg – where he composed his romantic string sextet in D minor. Some time later, he returned to Russia and the work was lost. It did not turn up for almost 100 years until it was finally discovered in an antiquarian bookshop. And it may still be... Read full text

Keywords: Chamber Music

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Musicians

Minkyung Sul	Violin
Melina Kim-Guez	Violin
Paulina Riquelme	Viola
Yumi Nishimura	Viola
Lucie de Roos	Cello
Guilherme Nardelli Monegatto	Cello

Program

Streichsextett d-Moll	Alexander Borodin
Streichsextett A-Dur op. 48	Antonín Dvořák
Streichsextett op. 4 »Verklärte Nacht« nach einem Gedicht von Richard Dehmel in einem Satz	Arnold Schönberg

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