Con spirito 2025: Versteckte Liebesbotschaften | Eröffnungskonzert

In the organizer's words:

AUFGEDECKT - Hidden messages in music

Hidden messages such as names, number symbolism, secret words, but also musical-ethnic backgrounds can be found in numerous compositions. We uncover these in the fifth season of the chamber music festival Con spirito.
Experience stars of the international chamber music scene from August 30 to September 7, 2025 in the salons and places of activity of Mendelssohn, Bach, the Schumanns, Grieg and Wagner.

Program:

Emotional portraits
Johannes Brahms
Liebesliederwalzer op. 52 (selection)
(contemporary arrangement for string quintet by Friedrich Hermann)

Wistful echo of the great love of youth
Antonín Dvořák
"Cypresses" (selection)

Caroline Esterhazy - the great love
Franz Schubert
Fantasy in F minor for piano four hands D 940 op. posthumous 103

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Clara's "Voice from afar"
Robert Schumann
Novellette op. 21 No. 8

The CLARA theme
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet in C minor op. 60

Tobias Feldmann, Seiji Okamoto, Rosanne Philippens, Antje Weithaas | violin
Sophie Kiening, Pauline Sachse | viola
Peter Bruns, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Xiaotang Xu | violoncello
Burak Marlali | double bass
Martin Helmchen, Boris Kusnezow, Annegret Kuttner | piano

Price information:

Tickets: PK 1: 35/25 EUR (reduced) | PK 2: 30/20 EUR (reduced), plus booking fee (available from the Gewandhaus box office)