SIGNUM QUARTETT

String Quartets by Schubert, Fokkens, Selaocoe, and Dvořák

With its latest program, the Signum Quartett once again initiates a dialogue between contemporary music from South Africa and the European string quartet repertoire. Robert Fokkens’s glimpses of a half-forgotten future and Abel Selaocoe’s Umthwalo (literally, “carrying a heavy load”) explore the country’s fraught history three decades after the end of apartheid while also showing a musical path into a shared future. These two recent works are juxtaposed with quartets by Schubert and Dvořák.

Franz Schubert - String Quartet in C minor D 703 "Quartettsatz"Robert Fokkens - glimpses of a half-forgotten future for String QuartetAbel Selaocoe - Umthwalo, Arrangement for String Quartet by Benjamin Woodgates *** - ***Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet in G major Op. 106

Artists/Collaborators: Florian Donderer, Annette Walther, Xandi van Dijk, Thomas Schmitz

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 29/April/2027 19:30
• Venue Pierre Boulez Saal
• Address Französische Straße 33 D, 10117 Berlin-Mitte