Emerson String Quartet: Musikfest Berlin 2013

Over het evenement

The Emerson String Quartet performs selected string quartets by Mendelssohn and Bartók at the Musikfest Berlin 2013.

String Quartet Cycle
The string quartet cycle with the Emerson String Quartet, the Quatuor Diotima and the Philharmonia Quartett Berlin presents the epochmaking quartets of Bela Bartók as well as Janáček’s, whose second quartet “Intimate Letters” will be performed in the original and seldom heard version with the viola d’amore.

About the festival Musikfest Berlin 2013
Twenty top orchestras, choirs, instrumental ensembles drawn from the cream of the international music crop, 25 world‐class soloists, conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa‐Pekka Salonen, Daniel Barenboim, Daniele Gatti, Manfred Honeck, Alan Gilbert and many others come together to form the exceptional musical program that makes up the Musikfest Berlin 2013.

Organised by the Berliner Festspiele in close cooperation with the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation a Tour d’Horizon resounds throughout the musical world of composers whose countries of origin are, politically speaking, “Eastern European” but are without question located the geographic centre of Europe.

19:00 work introduction