HDM in Concert: Ensemble Constellation

"So much is said about music, and so little is said," said Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. "I don't think words are enough, and if I thought they were, I would stop making music altogether." For Jörg Widmann, one of today's leading musicians, Mendelssohn is one of the greats of music history: "I have a huge affinity for Mendelssohn," says Widmann, "when I hear one of his slow movements, I recognize it immediately." The "first classicist" among the Romantics was not only a master of his craft who filled the art of counterpoint with unimagined emotions, but also a "modern" composer in many harmonic details – and an essential successor to Mozart. Consequently, this concert combines one of Widmann's brilliant string quartets with one by Mendelssohn and with the latter's wondrous string octet, in which Romanticism blooms in many colors and the elves dance.