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
    22
    Jun
    2025
    Neustadt/Weinstraße, Hambacher Musikfest
    11:00 amWeingut Müller-Kern, Hambach

    À LA FRANCAISE
    Cécile Chaminade, piano trio Nr. 2 a minor op. 34
    Maurice Ravel, string quartet F major
    Camille Saint-Saëns, piano quartet B major op. 41

    with Atos Trio

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  • Sun
    22
    Jun
    2025
    Neustadt/Weinstraße, Hambacher Musikfest
    6:00 pmHambacher Schloss

    ABSCHLUSSKONZERT
    Alexander Borodin, string sextet d minor
    Richard Wagner, Prelude to Tristan and Isolde, version for string sextet by Sebastian Gürtler
    Felix Otto Dessoff, string quintet op. 10
    Ludwig van Beethoven, piano concert Nr. 4 G major op. 58, version for piano and string sextet by Franz Lachner

    with Atos Trio

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  • Fri
    27
    Jun
    2025
    Schwarzenberg, SCHUBERTIADE
    4:00 pmAngelika-Kaufmann-Saal

    Franz Schubert, "Vier komische Ländler" for two violins D 345
    Franz Schubert, string quartet a minor D804 "Rosamunde"
    Franz Schubert, overture c minor D8
    Ludwig van Beethoven, string quartet C major op. 59 Nr. 3 "Rasumowsky"

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  • Sat
    28
    Jun
    2025
    Leitheim
    5:30 pmSchloss Leitheim

    Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, string quartet D major op. 44 Nr. 1
    Dmitri Schostakowitsch, string quartet Nr. 7 F sharp minor op. 108
    Ludwig van Beethoven, string quartet C major op. 59 Nr. 3 "Rasumowsky"

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