Schumann – Schostakowitsch – Schubert - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Beautiful dreams, rude awakening: This drama dominates the fourth evening of the Steude Quartet's concert cycle. Perhaps this is the reason why Schubert left his quartet movement from 1820 unfinished. Resignation and destruction, however, are given tremendous force, especially with Shostakovich. But that's not all: the epilogue of his String Quartet No. 8 is so dark and spooky that it runs cold over your back. For the Steude Quartet, this world-famous work with the dedication "In Memory of the Victims of Fascism and the War", which was created during a visit to Dresden in just three days, is to some extent also a reflection of the present and the past it is approaching in some places. But Schumann starts with joy having the last word.

Program:

Robert Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A major op. 41.3
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor op. 110
Franz Schubert: Quartet movement in C minor D 703

Violin: Volkhard Steude
Violin: Holger Grohe
Viola: Elmar Landerer
Violoncello: Wolfgang Härtl

Subject to change.