Quatuor Danel & Virpi Räisänen

This second concert also has a celestial aspect – in search of the ‘air of other planets’ referred to in Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet. This quartet truly shifted the boundaries. Everything about it was so new that its premiere in 1908 had music-loving Viennese public in an uproar. After the initial distress, however, they were enchanted and moved, and most of all, they realised that this music was actually not as perplexing as it first seemed – wasn’t it above all a continuation of the wondrous musical world of their beloved Beethoven?