5. KAMMERKONZERT

In the organizer's words:

Brahms | Mendelssohn Bartholdy

With the rarely encountered instrumentation of the string sextet and string octet, the 5th chamber concert features a truly orchestral sound. For Felix Mendelssohn, his Octet op. 20 was "the favorite of his youth". The 16-year-old was able to master the compact eight-part texture effortlessly and in a highly individual way, so it is not surprising that the octet made the young composer famous in one fell swoop. To this day, it is impossible to escape the freshness, melodic richness and unexpected musical twists and turns of the octet, which brings us very close to the light and airy music of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This pinnacle work of chamber music for strings is accompanied by Johannes Brahms' String Sextet No. 2, which also helped Brahms to his musical breakthrough together with his German Requiem and is particularly captivating with its lush textures and contrapuntal mastery.