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Opus Klassik for Schumann Quartett and Anna Lucia Richter in the category quintet!

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"What I feel is most beautiful, however, is one of these moments in opera when one is completely lonely, when one sheds the tear which one has all by oneself. If then you suceed in having people breathe with you, you're lonely indeed but not by yourself. "

Georg Nigl, VAN, February 2017

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Congratulations Marc Bouchkov!

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"If you know one room in an apartment, but not that the apartment has seven other rooms, you won’t even understand the room you’re in."

"My work, my projects, my ideas—they swallow all the energy that I have left… I don’t want to sound melodramatic, but that’s my calling: to do something, to create something, that is greater than myself. That’s my life."

Gidon Kremer, Die Zeit, December 2016

"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

"What is fascinating about a string quartet? The fact that there’s no conductor. Watching the four players on stage, you can see the communication, the tension, the pushback and the intimacy. In the age of Facebook and Instagram, when we only seem capable of sharing virtual intimacy, that’s very attractive."

Raphaël Merlin / Quatuor Ebène, Die Zeit, January 2017

"The thing that attracts me to conducting is that we get the chance to paint with an enormous brush. I play the violin as well, that is a much smaller paint brush. It’s still music, it’s still me, but the kind of colors that you can paint with an orchestra is incredible."

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, London Symphony Orchestra Blog, December 2014

"You never know whether a new piece is on the right track until you‘ve played it in concert. You feel whether the audience is listening attentively, whether it is following you — or not."

Sylvain Favre-Bulle / Quatuor Van Kuijk, BR Klassik, October 2017

"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

"I think outsiders interest me because I ask myself: why, how come? I feel there is also the opportunity to grow a bit as a person. Hope as a last resort, so to speak. It makes art utopian, and that makes me feel better."

Georg Nigl, DIE ZEIT, January 2018

"A pianist's right hand never has to argue with her left, whereas in a quartet, the integrity of each voice places a unique burden on the others. From the horizontal perspective we are four distinct and highly opinionated voices, from the vertical we are a whole, four interlocking and interdependent voices working in concert."

Cuarteto Casals, 2018

Opus Klassik for Schumann Quartett and Anna Lucia Richter in the category quintet!

With its album “Intermezzo” the Schumann Quartet is turning its attention to its prominent Romantic namesake on a recording for the first time. Robert Schumann’s string quartet op. 41/1 is combined with Felix Mendelssohn’s op. 12 and two compositions by Aribert Reimann: his “Adagio in Memory of Robert Schumann” and the Schumann transcription “Six Songs op. 107” for soprano and string quartet with Anna Lucia Richter.

The album was released in 2018 by Berlin Classics.

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Congratulations Marc Bouchkov!

We congratulate Marc Bouchkov for winning the 2nd Prize & Silver Medal at the 16th International Tschaikowsky Competition!

Listen to one of his virtuoso performances during the competition – here.

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