The Malion Quartett from Frankfurt is playing for the first time at the String Quartet Biennale and immediately sets the stakes high with some of the finest works for string quartet. The fugue is central to this program. The seventeen-year-old Mozart used the fugue form in his Eighth String Quartet. Shostakovich, like Mozart a great admirer of Bach, also applied the fugue technique in his Ninth String Quartet. The resounding result is grand, emotional music.

In the Selected by series, contrasts and connections resound; the musical language of different composers scrapes past each other or fits together wonderfully. In one hour, you will hear the string quartet repertoire across the board: all times, styles, sounds and colors.