Selected by / Malion Quartett Bach/Mozart, Mozart, Shostakovich

The ultra-young Malion Quartet from Frankfurt is performing for the first time at the String Quartet Biennale and immediately sets the tone with some of the finest works for string quartet. The fugue is central to this program. Seventeen-year-old Mozart used the fugue form in his Eighth String Quartet. Shostakovich, like Mozart a great admirer of Bach, also employed the fugue technique in his Ninth String Quartet. The resounding result is grand, emotional music. Come and listen at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.