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"There is something mythical about a performance. And it should stay that way. Everything and nothing can be going on in our heads while we play. Maybe that’s necessary for us to shape and connect with the music."

Marc Bouchkov, bNo. 8 (Ballett am Rhein), December 2017

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“Fragment” – the new album of Schumann Quartet

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"It’s a tricky balance to respect the knowledge that we have now about the way they supposedly played in those times, and yet be able to express ourselves freely and respectfully."

Alisa Weilerstein, New York Times, April 2017

"Every pianist starts with an sound in their head. It doesn’t come from the fingers or the shoulders… But what’s also true is that very few people actually have access to an individual sound. Those are the people whom you want hear over and over again."

Elena Bashkirova, Piano News, January 2018

"Through music I crossed and left behind national boundaries. I’m not making a big political statement. But the reality is that if you give a child a ‘bigger stage’ (music), it’s a transformational experience."

Saleem Ashkar, Yorkshire Magazine, 2015

"The music we are performing can be personal, but you have to share it whether it is a symphony, or a concerto, or chamber music, or even if it's solo music. If it's alone, you have to listen to yourself, and to the silence which accompanies you. You have to share it with the silence around you."

Marc Bouchkov, violonist.com, May 2013

"Performing complete cycles of all Beethoven sonatas has changed my life. One starts to look for connections; one needs two years to get close to the musical language. I've found connections encompassing all sonatas. Pablo Picasso expressed it well: I do not search – I find."

Saleem Ashkar, Osnabrücker Zeitung, August 2016

"The hardest part is the travelling and being far away from the ones you love (children, husband, parents, friends). The best part is being able to touch people with my music and seeing their happy faces after a wonderful concert. I really still believe that music makes people better!"

Sharon Kam, tokafi, March 2008

"When fear is rampant, it plays into the wrong people’s hands. The only antidote is joy, lots of joy. "

Daniel Brandt / Brandt Brauer Frick, theycallitkleinparis, January 2018

"In the end - and this I learned from Harnoncourt - one cannot be certain about anything, it remains unprovable. The only option is to feel it, to create something beautiful with taste. This he taught me - to look the human side. "

Ariane Matiakh, VAN Magazin, September 2018

"If the conductor likes the orchestra, and vice versa, and both are interested in trying something together, then we have it: the process of becoming more familiar with each other, the more we widen our world of sound."

Daniel Cohen, January 2020

“Fragment” – the new album of Schumann Quartet

The Schumann Quartet encounters Schubert with the String Quartet No. 6, D 74, the Quartettsatz, and the String Quartet No. 13, ‘Rosamunde’. The three brothers and Liisa Randalu show with their album “Fragment” how the compositions of Franz Schubert have developed over the years. A cooperation of Berlin Classics & SWR2, released 14 August.

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