Brahms and Herzogenberg

-A special afternoon that brings the sounds of the 19th century back to life in the modern age.

Kei Shirai, the second prize winner of the Munich International Music Competition and former guest concertmaster of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Shaor Maruyama, the leader of the baroque ensemble "La Musica Corrana", and Sonoko Asabuki, who has been active in numerous ensembles based in Switzerland, This is a special string quartet project featuring Takatsugu Kakeda, a longtime bass player with Recreazione d'Arcadia and other ensembles. Brahms is well known for the Joachim Quartet, a string quartet by his close friend, violinist Joachim, who of course used gut strings and a technique based on 19th-century taste that differs from the modern style. We are trying to present the music of Brahms and his contemporaries on the basis of research on 19th century technique, which is an extension of the historical technique of the 17th and 18th centuries.

We invite you to experience the atmosphere of late 19th-century chamber music at the end of the year 2024.