NDR Kammerkonzert

New musical paths

»Schubert is inhumanly industrious. He has been writing an octet with the greatest zeal for a long time now. If you come to him during the day, he says ›hello, how are you?‹ – ›fine‹, and continues writing, after which you leave.« It was not only astonishing to his friend Moritz von Schwind how Schubert was able to produce one masterpiece after another in rapid succession during the last years of his life. The new musical paths that the composer took in 1824 with the composition of his great octet are the focus of this program. It is completed by a performance of Dvorák’s Quintet, Op. 77, which is characterised by its many echoes of Czech folk music.