Searching for musical truth

The Süddeutsche Zeitung writes: “Anyone listening to the renowned Mandelring Quartet’s four-CD box set of Mendelssohn’s chamber music for strings will be astonished by, for example, the pure pathos of the introduction to the Quartet opus 13 or the eventful compositional density of the three opus 44 quartets. The listener will be devastated by the agitated desolation of op. 80, expressing the composer’s reaction to the death of his beloved sister Fanny.”, and continues: “Thus the whole project is dominated by an enthralling blend of astringency and virtuosity.”

The Mandelring Quartet’s distinguishing characteristics are its expressivity and remarkable homogeneity. The four individual members are as one in their shared determination always to seek out the innermost core of the music Thus there is a passionate interest in the structure and crafting of the works while at the same time there is the great joy of living with the music in a sensual dimension.

Background
  • Sun
    04
    May
    2025
    Neustadt/Weinstrasse, KLASSIK-REIHE
    6:00 pmSaalbau

    MANDELRING PLUS…
    Dmitri Schostakowitsch, string quartet Nr. 7, F sharp minor op. 108
    Dimitri Schostakowitsch, piano quintet G minor op. 57 „dem Gedächtnis von Nina Schostakowitsch“
    Dimitri Schostakowitsch, string quartet Nr. 9, E flat major op. 117 „dedicated to Irina Schostakowitsch“

    with Henri Sigfridsson (piano)

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  • Tue
    06
    May
    2025
    BERLIN, BERLIN-Zyklus
    8:00 pmBerliner Philharmonie, Kammermusiksaal

    MANDELRING PLUS
    Dmitri Schostakowitsch, string quartet Nr. 7, F sharp minor op. 108
    Dimitri Schostakowitsch, piano quintet G minor op. 57 „dem Gedächtnis von Nina Schostakowitsch“
    Dimitri Schostakowitsch, string quartet Nr. 9, E flat major op. 117 „dedicated to Irina Schostakowitsch“

    with Henri Sigfridsson (piano)

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  • Thu
    22
    May
    2025
    Klagenfurt, Österreich
    7:30 pmKonzerthaus, Mozart-Saal

    Johannes Brahms, string quartet c minor op. 51 Nr. 1
    Johannes Brahms, string quartet a minor op. 51 Nr. 2
    Johannes Brahms, string quartet B major op. 67

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  • Fri
    23
    May
    2025
    Erlangen
    8:00 pmSt. Matthäus Church

    Franz Schubert, string quartet a minor "Rosamunde"
    Dmitri Schostakowitsch, string quartet Nr. 7
    Ludwig van Beethoven, string quartet C major op. 59 Nr. 3

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