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Our concert series at Konzerthaus Berlin is entering its 26h season !
Since 1993/94 we have been able to use a Carte Blanche for our own concert series in the chamber music hall of Berlin Konzerthaus with an annually changing focus and internationally renowned guests who usually support us in two concerts.
In 2022/23 Andra Darzins (viola), Lucas Fels (violoncello) and Caspar Frantz (piano) will performing with us in sextet and quintet programs.
Our dates for the 2022/23 season:
Saturday — December 3, 2022
Saturday — February 4, 2023
Saturday — April 1, 2023
Saturday — May 20, 2023
More information on our concert list:
https://vogler-quartett.de/concerts/
For all string quartet fans there is now a “String Quartet Quartet”.
32 ensembles were selected for the card game by the VAN online Magazine for Classical Music. We are on!
More information can be found here:
https://van-magazin.de/streichquartett-quartett-abo/

Our concert with works by Mendelssohn, Schulhoff and Busch in Coburg on 31 January 2022:
“The Nazis would have banned such a concert
How the Vogler Quartet together with the alto saxophonist Christian Segmehl succeed in an exciting encounter of musical worlds […] Expressive early romanticism and experimental sounds of the 20th century – an exciting mix.”
Coburger Tageblatt, Jochen Berger, 02.02.2022
Vol. 4 (2 CDs) of our Dvořák complete recording was published on October 5, 2021.
String Quartets No. 2 in B flat major and No. 5 in F minor op. 9
Trio C major op. 74 for wo violins and viola

Christian Joost’s clarinet quintet at Schwetzingen Mozart Festival 2021:
“The celebrated world premiere of the Vogler Quartet (…)
The renowned ensemble gave an impressive demonstration of what absolute music sounds like.“
Schwetzinger Zeitung, Maria Herlo, 12.10.2021
Finally !
On June 6th we were able to play our first concert with audience since the end of October !
A great feeling in a wonderful location, the Kulturbrauerei Berlin.
Further releases in 2021
Georgi Catoire:
Piano Quintet op. 28 (1914) and Piano Quartet op. 31 (1916)

Rarity turns out to be a discovery
Initiator for the recording (at Deutschlandfunk in Cologne in May 2020) is the pianist Oliver Triendl, our longstanding chamber music partner and a proven specialist in finding unknown, often wrongly forgotten repertoire.
The CD was released by Capriccio on 8 January 2021.
The album was nominated for the ICMA 2022.
Grigori Frid: “Phädra” op. 78,1 and Piano Quintet op. 72

World premiere on CD
released on 5 February 2021
The album was nominated for the ICMA 2022.
Beethoven cycle as streaming
Our Beethoven cycle at Holzhausenschloesschen Frankfurt from 11–20 November 2020 unfortunately could not take place as planned due to the corona pandemic.
The organizer Buergerstiftung Frankfurt, recorded three concerts without audience.
The concerts can be accessed on the organizer’s media library or on our website under “media”.
Programme 1:
Beethoven: string quartets F major op. 18,1 / C major op. 59,3 / c sharp minor op. 131
Programme 2:
Beethoven: string quartets A major op. 18,5 / B flat major op. 130
Programme 3:
Beethoven: string quartets G major op. 18,2 / f minor op. 95 / E flat major op. 127
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Our chamber music series at Konzerthaus Berlin
Our next concert of the series planned for March 6, 2021 has to be cancelled. We will hopefully be able to give you a catch-up date soon.
In the 2021/22 season we hope for normal concerts with 4 dates.
Please make a note of the following Saturdays:
18.12.2021 / 29.01.2022 / 02.04.2022 / 21.05.2022
This season will be a combination of two catch-up concerts from the 2020/21 season with pure Beethoven programmes and a combination of Beethoven plus Dovrak and Janacek. In the last concert — themed ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ -, the actor Till Weinheimer (with a reading of excerpts from Tolstoi’s ‘Kreutzer Sonata’) and the pianist Caspar Frantz will be our guests.
The exact season programme can be found under our projects.