Con spirito 2025: Fanny und Felix - Auf immer verbunden

AUFGEDECKT - Hidden messages in music

Hidden messages such as names, number symbolism, secret words, but also musical-ethnic backgrounds can be found in numerous compositions. We uncover these in the fifth season of the chamber music festival Con spirito.
Experience stars of the international chamber music scene from August 30 to September 7, 2025 in the salons and places of activity of Mendelssohn, Bach, the Schumanns, Grieg and Wagner.

Program:

Idol 1
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata for viola da gamba (violoncello) and piano no. 1 in G major BWV 1027

A song without words
Fanny Hensel
"Adagio" in E major H.72 for violin and piano

The enigmatic F.
Fanny Mendelssohn
"Easter Sonata"

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Idol 2 - Sibling dialog
Fanny Hensel
Fantasy in G minor for violoncello and piano
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Lied ohne Worte op. 109 for violoncello and piano

Idol 3
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano trio in E flat major op. 70 No. 2

Tobias Feldmann, Rosanne Philippens | Violin
Peter Bruns, Xiaotang Xu | violoncello
Martin Helmchen, Boris Kusnezow, Annegret Kuttner | piano