Christian Tetzlaff, violin (Artist in Residence of the KAP)
Members of the Kammerakademie Potsdam
Johannes Brahms | String Quintet No. 2 in G major op. 111
Franz Schubert | Octet in F major D 803
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 will bring two masterpieces of chamber music literature to the stage. The special combination of wind and string instruments, the unusual length and the large instrumental passages make Schubert's Octet seem like a small symphony. Orchestral sonority, symphonic themes and a rousing rhythm also characterize Brahms' String Quintet in G major. "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.