Bennewitz Quartet

Haydn / Schulhoff / Dvořák

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Bennewitz Quartet
Bennewitz Quartet © Kamil Ghais
Laeiszhalle Hamburg
Laeiszhalle Hamburg © Maxim Schulz
  • Doors open 19:00

  • Start 20:00

  • Interval

The Prague School

The Bennewitz Quartet is without doubt one of the most highly respected string quartets of our time. The Czech ensemble now comes to the Laeiszhalle Recital Hall to perform captivating music by the Prague-born Erwin Schulhoff and by the famous Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. Also on the programme is the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, who quite rightly claimed that his music was understood around the world.

Haydn’s string quartet »The Joke« is a wonderful example of the composer’s humour, which lurks in almost all his works. Schulhoff was a European cosmopolitan whose glamorous life came to a premature end due to the terrors of National Socialism. His music continues to intrigue and mesmerise audiences to this day. And, like all his other quartets, Dvořák’s marvellous String Quartet Op. 61 stands in the oversized shadow of the famous »American String Quartet«.
 

Performers

Bennewitz Quartet

Jakub Fišer violin
Štěpán Ježek violin
Jiří Pinkas viola
Štěpán Doležal violoncello

Programme

Joseph Haydn
Streichquartett Es-Dur op. 33/2 »Der Scherz«

Erwin Schulhoff
Streichquartett Nr. 1

– Interval –

Antonín Dvořák
Streichquartett Nr. 11 C-Dur op. 61

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