© Peter Adamik
© Peter Adamik
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Program
Franz Schubert
String Quartet in G minor D 173
David Philip Hefti
Fünf Szenen für Gustav (String Quartet No. 6)
Gustav Mahler
Five Songs on Poems by Friedrich Rückert
Arrangement for Soprano and String Quartet by David Philip Hefti
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
String Quartet in F minor Op. 80

When Felix Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny died unexpectedly in 1847, the composer confessed to feeling “the greatest emptiness and barrenness in my mind and heart.” He poured his grief into his F-minor String Quartet, which was to remain the last quartet he completed before passing away himself just a few months later. The Berlin Staatskapelle String Quartet combines this instrumental requiem with Gustav Mahler’s Rückert Songs—works that also talk about love and leave-taking—in an arrangement by Swiss composer David Philip Hefti, with Mojca Erdmann as the soloist. The songs will be interspersed with the individual movements of Hefti’s Sixth String Quartet, Fünf Szenen für Gustav. Schubert’s youthful G-minor Quartet, written when the composer was just 18 years old, completes the program.

Approximate running time: 1h 45m with one intermission
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Mahler: Rückert Songs & String Quartets by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Hefti
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