Dmitri Shostakovich stayed twice – in 1960 and 1972 – in the spa town of Gohrisch in Saxon Switzerland. During his first stay he composed his eighth string quartet in C minor, op. 110. It is now considered one of his most important works, and it has been proven to be the only work Shostakovich composed outside the Soviet Union. He wrote in a letter to his friend Isaak Glikman: “I lived in Gohrisch near the little town of Königstein, 40 kilometers from Dresden. The area is incredibly beautiful. By the way, that’s the way it should be: the area is called ‘Saxon Switzerland’. The creative working conditions have paid off: I composed my 8th string quartet there.”

Depuis 1989, les 33 communes du territoire vibrent au rythme de la musique classique à chaque édition des Jeudis Musicaux. Pendant quatre mois (de juin à septembre), plus d’une centaine d’artistes d’exception, se produisent dans les édifices religieux, églises et temples du pays royannais.

Depuis 2011, la Grange aux Pianos est un lieu incontournable de la vie culturelle dans le département de l’Indre.

For two frenetic weeks in July, Kuhmo in Eastern Finland is host to a chamber music festival attracting thousands of music lovers. In that fortnight, this town of 8,000 inhabitants echoes to the sound of music against a backcloth of a lake that almost laps the walls of the concert halls in the clear, unbelievable northern light.

Chamber Music at Lundsgaard is an annual chamber music festival that takes place in early August at the Lundsgaard Estate just outside the picturesque harbor city of Kerteminde on Funen Island.

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Since 2005, the Quatuor Danel is quartet in residence at the University of Manchester, where they uphold a tradition of coaching and collaborations with world-renowned musicologists.

Bruckner, his pupil Cyrill Hynais and their works for string quartet

With Duo Bögeholz Mosalini and Romain Lecuyer

Friends and colleagues Shostakovich and Weinberg are once again brought together by an ensemble that has been lavishly praised for its recordings of both composers. Weinberg’s works from 1963 and 1964 respectively are succeeded by the second of two Shostakovich examples from the latter year.