Begin: 7:00 pm
Break: 7:35 pm
End: 8:40 pm
Reading by Martina Gedeck in German
Reading "Guten Abend, Vielliebchen!"
ROBERT SCHUMANN
String Quartet a-minor op. 41 No. 1 2nd Set Scherzo. Presto
Reading "1000 Flaschen Rheinwein"
FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY
String Quartet a-minor op. 13 / 3rd Set Intermezzo
Reading "Weg - nur fort"
ROBERT SCHUMANN
String Quartet A-major op. 41 No. 3 / 3rd Set Adagio molto
Reading "Weich wie Schnee"
JOHANNES BRAHMS
String Quartet B-flat-major op. 67
Violine Erik Schumann
Violine Ken Schumann
Viola Veit Hertenstein
Violoncello Mark Schumann
Reading Martina Gedeck
As innovative artists the musicians of the Schumann Quartet are constantly trying to find new formats for concerts so as to enrich the musical landscape. Actress and narrator Martina Gedeck is the ideal partner and they have already worked together with great success.
Over the course of her career Martina Gedeck has worked her way into the minds of millions of viewers, acting in crime series such as Tatort, as narrator on several audio books or recently in the series Oktoberfest 1900. She has received many awards, including two golden cameras as best German actress, and she is always open for new ideas.
In the current programme Martina Gedeck takes the audience through the evening with a variety of texts from German lyric poetry. This literary journey is complemented by masterpieces of Romantic string quartet repertoire. According to personal sensitivity, the very different pieces can either complement or contrast what is narrated, thus presenting each listener with a very specific individual experience.
What occurs on such an evening is a surprise also for the musicians. “At the latest on stage any kind of imitation disappears, and one is automatically honest towards oneself. Then in the music a communicative link can be created with the audience.” This communication is always different but never boring!