By: Bernhard Schmidt

New CD: Antonín Dvořák Chamber Music Impressions from the New World
June 15, 2025

Antonín Dvořák’s ‘American’ chamber music works are the fruits of a happy, carefree time. And this is reflected in the music:…

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The 28th Hambacher Musikfest is imminent
April 1, 2025

The program for the 28th Hambach Music Festival. The flyer with the entire program for download as PDF. Tickets are available…

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Remembrance of an encounter with György Ligeti
March 27, 2025

On the occasion of the concert at the Berlin Philharmonie, which featured György Ligeti’s first quartet, “Métamorphoses nocturnes,” Nanette Schmidt recalls…

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Concerts with the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Rhineland-Palatinate
November 23, 2024

© Wilfried Dechau The concerts with the enormously committed State Philharmonic Orchestra of Rhineland-Palatinate on November 21, 22 and 23, 2024 in…

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Concert in the Cathedral of Speyer/Germany
September 27, 2024

C Klaus Landry Concert in the crypt of the Speyer Cathedral. Part of the program was the string quintet by Anton…

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Television broadcast with Nanette and Bernhard Schmidt on the occasion of the 40th birthday of the quartet
April 8, 2024

On Tuesday, April 9, 2024, a “couch conversation” with Nanette and Bernhard Schmidt takes place in the SWR Rhineland-Palatinate TV programme…

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Mandelring Quartett awarded with prize
April 26, 2023

The Mandelring Quartet was awarded the 2023 Art Prize of the Ike and Berthold Roland Foundation. The presentation took place on…

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Madrid, Royal Palace, Concerts with the Stradivarius Instruments of the Royal Collection
February 17, 2023

On March, 15 and 16, 2023 the Mandelring Quartet will play again – for the fourth time – two concerts on…

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Brahms Cycle in the vaulted cellar of the Mandelrings former vineyard estate
January 27, 2023

A cycle with Johannes Brahms’ complete chamber music for strings will take place in the vaulted cellar of the quartets homebase,…

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Tour in Spain including concerts at the Royal Palace in Madrid
March 9, 2022

The Mandelring Quartet is happy to inform that the tour to Spain that was cancelled last autumn will now take place…

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