The Alinde Quintet, a prizewinning ensemble at the Carl Nielsen Chamber Music Competition in Copenhagen in 2023 and a rising star ensemble of Czech chamber music will bring an all-Czech programme to the Festival. Their concert will be part of the Year of Czech Music supported by the Czech Centre London.

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Alinde Quintet

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"I am extremely happy, it went very quickly," wrote Antonín Dvořák under the heading of his 12th String Quartet, the sketch of which he completed in just a few days. The natural idyll of rural Spillville inspired him so deeply during his stay in the USA that the composition came easily. Along with his Ninth Symphony, "From the New World," which was also written in America, this string quartet is one of his most famous works. Dvořák's soulful chamber music provides a positive moment of calm in the Alinde Quintet's otherwise melancholic program: in arrangements for wind quintet, the up-and-coming Czech ensemble explores the emotional complexity of Josef Suk's elegiac, pleading meditation, Pēteris Vask's composition "For a Deceased Friend," and Shostakovich's plaintive Eighth String Quartet.

David Šimeček

Events

Upcoming events

23 - 24 Jul, 2025

Alinde Quintet · Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Past events

May 17, 2024

Alinde Quintet · Newbury Spring Festival

Future and recently performed repertoire

Clarinet in String Quartet No. 8 by Shostakovich

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Clarinet in String Quartet No. 12 by Dvorak

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

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