Dresden Music Festival: Hagen Quartett at Annenkirche

About the Event

In this highly‐anticipated concert, hear the mellifluous sounds of chamber music by Schumann and Shostakovich at Dresden's treasured and world‐renowned Annenkirche.

Few know how to musically underline Goethe's famous definition of the string quartet — 'You hear four reasonable people talking to each other, you believe you get something out of their discourse' — as convincingly as the Hagen Quartet, originally founded in the 1970s by four siblings in Salzburg, three of whom are still with us today, unchanged and with undiminished passion. Schumann's A minor Quartet from his first cycle, which premiered on the 23rd birthday of his wife Clara, breathes romantic flair. The work is framed by Shostakovich's Opus 92, premiered in 1953, which is both eruptive and internalised in its beauty, as well as the follow‐up work composed after Stalin's death, in which a cheerful, conciliatory tone shines through.