Als eines der besten Streichquartette unserer Zeit kennen und schätzen Kammermusik-Aficionados und Musikkritiker in aller Welt das Belcea Quartet. Im Rahmen des digital stattfindenden Internationalen Musikfests Hamburg 2021 beschäftigt sich das Ensemble an zwei aufeinanderfolgenden Abenden mit Johannes Brahms’ Werken für Streichquartett, -quintett und -sextett.
Im Talk mit Elbphilharmonie-Pressesprecher Tom R. Schulz plaudert das Quartett über Brahms, die Herausforderungen bei Konzertstreams und die Chemie im Streichquartett.
The concerts :... with the Belcea Quartet
Das Belcea Quartet
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About the quartet
The Belcea Quartet, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2019, is one of the world’s most renowned string quartets. Formed at the Royal College of Music in London, the ensemble includes members from three countries: the first violinist Corina Belcea comes from Romania, violist Krzysztof Chorzelski is from Poland, and Axel Schacher and Antoine Lederlin on the violin and cello are French.
The musicians trained under world-famous mentors from the Amadeus and Alban Berg quartets, and now perform on the world’s most prestigious stages, including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, New York’s Carnegie Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall, as well as at the famous festivals in Lausanne, Salzburg and Schwarzenberg. The Belcea Quartet also regularly visits Hamburg. In February 2017, the ensemble was one of the first ever string quartets to perform in the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall.
The quartet’s impressive discography includes award-winning recordings of Beethoven’s complete quartets, as well as CDs of all string quartets by Britten, Bartók and Brahms. In collaboration with renowned musicians such as the pianists Piotr Anderszewski and Till Fellner, the cellist Valentin Erben and the singers Ian Bostridge and Matthias Goerne, the quartet has also released albums featuring works by Mozart, Schubert, Fauré and Dutilleux – a tradition the quartet continues in their latest concert stream.
The interview was recorded on May 23st 2021.
