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NDR Chamber Music Concert / Elphier-Quartett

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Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 19:30
Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet in C minor is one of the composers most personal works. There are striking allusions to Wagner’s »Götterdämmerung« and Tchaikovsky’s confessional symphony »Pathétique«. But Shostakovich also immortalised himself, with themes from earlier works as well as the musical code D-Es-C-H. The piece was composed in 1960 during a visit to Dresden, which was destroyed in 1945. The horrors of the destruction shocked Shostakovich so much that he dedicated the quartet to the victims of war and fascism.

Keywords: Chamber Music, Recital

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Musicians

Yihua Jin-MengelViolin
Ljudmila MinnibaevaViolin
Alla RutterViola
Phillip WentrupCello
Benedikt KanyDouble bass
Haiou ZhangPiano

Program

String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110Dmitri Shostakovich
Postcard from the Camp: Songs for the War-Time Comfort WomenCecilia Heejeong Kim
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34Johannes Brahms
Klaviersextett Es-Dur »Gran Sestetto originale«Michail Glinka
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