"So much is said about music and so little is said," said Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. "I don't think the words are enough, and if I thought they were enough, I wouldn't make any music at all in the end."
For one of today's most important musicians, Jörg Widmann, he is one of the greats in music history: "I have a huge affinity with Mendelssohn," says Widmann, "when I hear one of his slow movements, I recognize him immediately." The "first classicist" among the Romantics was not only a master of his craft who filled the art of counterpoint with unimagined emotions, but also a "modern" composer in many harmonic details - and a key successor to Mozart. Consequently, this concert combines one of Widmann's brilliant string quartets with one of Mendelssohn's and with the latter's wondrous string octet, in which Romanticism blossoms in many colors and the elves dance.
February 26, 2026
