Rarely does a single work contain so much greatness in so little. Schubert's Octet for three wind instruments and five strings is both chamber and orchestral music; it is a cheerful serenade and symphonic solemnity, presenting eight individuals as a close-knit community. With this work, Schubert, after a serious illness, wanted nothing less than to "pave the way to the great symphony," and he succeeded in doing so in a fascinating way, both relaxed and highly concentrated. Nearly 60 minutes of pure musical enjoyment – ​​that is his Octet. Violinist Annegret Klenke, the first member of the award-winning Klenke Quartet, founded in Weimar in 1991, performs the work as a guest.

6th Chamber Concert

Kunsthaus Meyenburg

There is rarely so much greatness in a small piece in a single work. Schubert's Octet for three wind instruments and five strings is both chamber and orchestral music, it is a cheerful serenade and symphonic seriousness, it presents eight individuals as a close-knit community. With this work, Schubert wanted nothing less than to "pave the way to the great symphony" after a serious illness, and he succeeded in doing so in a fascinating way, relaxed and highly concentrated at the same time. Almost 60 minutes of pure musical enjoyment - that is his Octet. The violinist Annegret Klenke leads the work as a guest, the primaria of the multi-award-winning Klenke Quartet, which was founded in Weimar in 1991.

Banquet Hall

Cruciskirche

The place: the main camp VIII A near Görlitz. The time: the Second World War. Instruments available: clarinet, piano, violin and cello. Not ideal conditions for musical world literature, but Olivier Messiaen managed to do just that at the turn of the year 1940/41 while he was a German prisoner of war. His quartet is as much an end-time work that explores the depths of human existence as it is a vision of the future that hears the divine in birdsong. 80 years after the liberation of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps, Messiaen's music is placed alongside selected texts.

5th Chamber Concert

Theater Nordhausen

Romanticism has many facets, and some of the most beautiful can be heard here. The range extends from the stroke of genius of the 14-year-old Franz Schubert to the Spring Fantasy of the late Romantic Delius. As well as Schubert, Schumann, Grieg and Brahms are represented in our program with songs that the Swiss composer Fabian Müller has arranged for clarinet and string orchestra. The fifth of the once immensely popular serenades by Robert Fuchs will be heard at the end. Fuchs, the Viennese teacher of Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and many others, pays homage to his colleague Johann Strauss in the last movement of his work - with quotes from "The Bat".

Maxi Hennemann

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Jun 24, 2025

6th Chamber Concert · Loh-Orchester Sondershausen

May 3 - Jun 1, 2025

6th Chamber Concert · Loh-Orchester Sondershausen

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Clarinet in Octet by Schubert

Loh-Orchester Sondershausen

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