Lieblingsklassiker Orchestrale Kammermusik

Christian Tetzlaff is not only a great soloist, but also a gifted chamber musician. He founded his own string quartet back in the 1990s and still devotes himself to the chamber music repertoire with the same passion that can be heard in his solo performances.

Together with the musicians of the KAP, he brings two masterpieces of chamber music literature to the stage. The special combination of wind and string instruments, the unusual length and the large orchestrated passages make Franz Schubert's Octet seem like a small symphony. "In general, I want to pave my way to the great symphony in this way," wrote the composer himself about his work. Orchestral sonority, symphonic themes and a rousing rhythm also characterize the second string quartet by Johannes Brahms. "Especially in the slow movement, it gets down to the nitty-gritty, inwards and into a depth that shows the great, mature Brahms," says Tetzlaff.