Zehetmair Quartet - Sibelius, Brahms en Webern

Zehetmair Quartet

Watching a performance by the Zehetmair Quartet is like watching a tightrope walker without a safety net, as was once reported in The Guardian . "As a listener, I want to immerse myself in music, understand its structure and be moved by the beauty of the proportions and the richness of the passion," says Thomas Zehetmair, primarius and founder of the Zehetmair Quartet. This statement illustrates the intensity with which he and his colleagues work.

Sibelius, Brahms and Webern

Few composers have felt Beethoven's shadow as strongly as Brahms. The string quartet was sacred to him, and before he published his first work, he burned twenty of them. This opus 51 no. 1 has the same key, C minor, as Brahms' First Symphony – another difficult work. Like Beethoven, Sibelius wrote meaningful words in the score of his string quartet. What did the Voces Intimae in his head whisper to him? Five minutes were enough for Anton Webern to share his intimate thoughts in Sechs Bagatellen .