NDR Chamber Music Concert / Elphier-Quartett

• Classical Music

Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet in C minor is one of the composers most personal works. There are striking allusions to Wagner’s »Götterdämmerung« and Tchaikovsky’s confessional symphony »Pathétique«. But Shostakovich also immortalised himself, with themes from earlier works as well as the musical code D-Es-C-H. The piece was composed in 1960 during a visit to Dresden, which was destroyed in 1945. The horrors of the destruction shocked Shostakovich so much that he dedicated the quartet to the victims of war and fascism.

PERFORMERS

Elphier-Quartett string quartet

Yihua Jin-Mengel violin

Ljudmila Minnibaeva violin

Alla Rutter viola

Phillip Wentrup violoncello

Andreas Grünkorn violoncello

Benedikt Kany double bass

Haiou Zhang piano

PROGRAM

Alfred Schnittke
Hymnus II

Dmitri Schostakowitsch
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

Cecilia Heejeong Kim
Postcard from the Camp: Songs for the War-Time Comfort Women

- Interval -

Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34