Chamber music performances held in Saarbrücken and Hamburg

The Saarbrücker Kammermusik concert series opened with a performance by the Quatuor Ébène at the SR-Sendesaal. The French string quartet, featuring musicians Pierre Colombet, Gabriel Le Magadure, Marie Chilemme, and Yuya Okamoto, performed three Beethoven string quartets: Opus 18/1, Opus 74, and Opus 59/3. The ensemble utilized instruments crafted by Antonio Stradivari.

In Hamburg, the KAIRI Quartet presented a program featuring works by Mozart, Webern, and Beethoven. Founded in 2015 at the Tokyo College of Music and currently based in Salzburg, the ensemble performed Mozart’s Es-dur Quartet KV 428, Webern’s Op. 5, and Beethoven’s “Rasumowsky” Quartets.