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Deutsche Welle Festival: String Quartet Festival

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Irene Schwalb is the artistic director of the String Quartet Festival in Heidelberg.

Cosmos Quartet from Spain - Helena Satué and Bernat Prat, violins, Lara Fernandez, viola and Oriol Prat, cello

Dalia Quartet from Spain - Oliguer Beltran, Elena Ray, Wenting Kang and Erica Wise

Esme Quartet from Germany - Wohnoe Bae, Yuna Ha, Jiwon Kim und Yeeun Heo

Aris Quartet from Germany - first violinist Anne Katharina Wildemuth, second violinist Noémi Zipperling, violist Caspar Vinzens and cellist Lukas Sieber

Dudok Quartet from The Netherlands - violinists Judit van Driel and Marleen Wester, violist Marie-Louise de Jong and cellist David Faber

Some have called the string quartet the summit of the composer's craft. An entire festival in Heidelberg, Germany is dedicated to the genre. Focusing on up-and-coming quartets, here are five young quartet ensembles you won't have heard from for the last time.

Programme:

HAYDN: String Quartet in B minor Op 33/1;

HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 33/3, Bird (3, 4);

MOZART: String Quartet No 21 in D K575, Prussian;

ARRIAGA: String Quartet No 1 in D minor (2; 3; 4);

PFITZNER: String Quartet No 2 Op 36 

Cosmos Quartet, Dalia Quartet, Esmé Quartet, Aris Quartet, Dudok Quartet 

Recorded in the Old Pedagogical Academy, Heidelberg (Deutsche Welle)