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

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"When I first heard the Grosse Fuge I thought to myself: “this is insane and impossible to understand from a first hearing, I must listen to it again”. I still think that! "

Corina Belcea / Belcea Quartet, Strad Magazine, December 2017

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Congratulations Marc Bouchkov!

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"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

"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

"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

"When playing in a quartet, one of the most important things is to respect all the individual personalities of each member; they are part of the identity of the group."

Loïc Rio / Quatuor Modigliani, Februar 2019

"The hard part is not to prepare something; it’s to let the preparation go."

Erik Schumann / Schumann Quartett, Concerti, May 2017

"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

"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

"If you play it effortlessly, this is absurd. I want to hear a fight. I want to hear how hard it is, how the piece is an obstacle. "

Piotr Anderszewski, New York Times, February 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

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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