Name: Aris Quartet
Start: 2025-01-26T19:00:00
Location: Philharmonie Mercatorhalle

Anna  Katharina Wildermuth

Noémi Zipperling

Caspar Vinzens

Lukas Sieber

Duisburger Philharmoniker

Since the ensemble was founded in 2009, the Aris Quartet has long since played its way into the top league of chamber music, is a regular guest on the most renowned stages in the world - and has developed a preference for programs rich in relationships. In the 3rd chamber concert, the four musicians focus on two of the most important romantic composers who have a few things in common: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Johannes Brahms. Both come from Hamburg and both share a passion for Switzerland: Brahms traveled 14 times to the beloved Alpine country, about which Mendelssohn Bartholdy raved euphorically: "Of all the countries I know, this is the most beautiful." But both also share a respect for the "giant Beethoven", as Brahms once called his larger-than-life role model. The string quartets of the two romantics are therefore also a musical confrontation with the shadow of their idol. Fanny Hensel, however, had to contend with a completely different shadow: while her younger brother Felix was celebrated as a musical prodigy, her conservative father pushed her sister into the role of "housewife and mother who also composed music on the side". However, her more than 460 works tell a completely different story. So it's time we heard them!