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The 2023/24 sea­son will once again fea­ture our sub­scrip­tion series at  Konzer­thaus Ber­lin with four con­certs, each Sat­urday at 6:00 pm:

Octo­ber 28, 2023
Janu­ary 20, 2024
March 16, 2024
May 04, 2024

Info and tick­ets / sub­scrip­tions are avail­able at Konzer­thaus Ber­lin:
https://www.konzerthaus.de/de/abo/abo-vogler-quartett/169



In the 2024/25 sea­son we will cel­eb­rate our 40th Anniversary!

This is hard to believe.
Four dec­ades with the same line-up (this is unique in the scene) have allowed us to grow togeth­er not only music­ally but also per­son­ally into a sol­id unit.

We thought about what we actu­ally stand for and what we are par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in. Haydn and Schubert are always part of our pro­grams and inspire us again and again. Our com­plete record­ing of Ant­on­in Dvorak’s string quar­tets will be com­pleted this year. Dvorak’s music has accom­pan­ied us intens­ively through many years now and we have grown togeth­er with it. Our quar­tet was deeply influ­enced by our love of clas­sic­al mod­ern music and espe­cially of the New Vienna School.
Giuseppe Verdi’s string quar­tet was fea­tured on our first CD which we pro­duced for BMG/RCA. Louis Théodore Gouvry’s string quar­tet No. 5 was a dis­cov­ery for us. Rarely heard and com­posed in the tem­por­al prox­im­ity to Verdi’s quar­tet these works, sup­ple­men­ted by Erwin Schulhoff’s “5 pieces for string quar­tet” build an excit­ing program.

Jubilee Pro­grams:

Pro­gram 1:
Joseph Haydn:                       string quar­tet E flat major op. 64/6 Hob. III:64
Alban Berg:                            stgring quar­tet op. 3
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Ant­on­in  Dvořák:                  string quar­tet G major  op. 106

Pro­gram 2:
Louis Théodore Gouvy:         string quar­tet No. 5 C minor op. 68
Erwin Schul­hoff:                    5 pieces for string quar­tet 
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Giuseppe Verdi:                      string quar­tet E minor

Pro­gram 3:
Joseph Haydn:                         string quar­tet D major op. 76/5 Hob. III:79
Ant­on Webern:                       5 mouve­ments for string quar­tet op. 5
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Franz Schubert:                       string quar­tet d minor „Death and the Maid­en” 
                                                    D 810

First ver­sion of Verdi’s String Quar­tet E minor presen­ted in Leipzig.

The Uni­ver­sity of Leipzig, Leipzig Opera and the Uni­ver­sity of Music and Theat­er made an extraordin­ary event pos­sible: “A string quar­tet nev­er heard before”.

On 27 March, 2023 we were able to present the first ver­sion of Giuseppe Verdi’s Quar­tet in E minor from 1873 in the con­cert foy­er of the Opera in Leipzig. The piece has only been heard in the revised prin­ted ver­sion of 1876 so far.

The first ver­sion, peppered with quo­ta­tions from Verdi’s oper­as, was recently pub­lished by Prof. Dr. Anselm Ger­hard, long-time head of the Musi­co­logy Insti­tute at the Uni­ver­sity of Bern and a recog­nized opera spe­cial­ist, in a crit­ic­al edi­tion by Henle Verlag.

In the Lec­ture Con­cert, both ver­sion were con­tras­ted with each other.

In March and sum­mer 2023 we will record the next two quar­tets (A minor op. 16 and C major op. 61) at Börne Stu­di­os in Ber­lin for our com­plete Dvořák record­ing. 
Four albums have already been released.

17th Nord­hess­is­che Kin­der­musiktage with the Vogler Quar­tet are in plan­ning for the peri­od 13–16 June, 2023.

We are happy to real­ize pro­jects with Kas­sel school chil­dren after two years.
In 2021 and 2022, the days had to be can­celed due to the pandemic.

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/

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

10. Okto­ber 2021
 
Sound / Artist­ic Qual­ity / Rep­er­toirew­ert / Book­let:  5 out of 5
 
“Of con­sist­ent qual­ity
And that applies not only to the great play­ing of the Vogler Quar­tet, but also to the “qual­ity” of the com­pos­i­tions. They are “great” in a lit­er­al sense. […] Again the per­formers are out­stand­ing. As in the pre­vi­ous epis­odes, they hit the Bohemi­an col­or of this music in a par­tic­u­larly delight­ful way. Not to men­tion the tech­nic­al mas­tery. So if you really want to throw your­self into Czech cham­ber music, you’ve come to the right place with this new double CD.”
 
 

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