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2020 Festival: 15 Musicians, 3 Concerts, 1 Festival

From 12 to 14 May 2020, the chamber music festival of the Jewish Museum Berlin appeared live in your living room, as an exceptional festival in exceptional times, you were able to listen to a livestream of intonations.

Under the direction of Elena Bashkirova, Berlin artists celebrated their love of chamber music on the stage in the Glass Courtyard. In its ninth year, the festival brought seasoned figures such as Madeleine Carruzzo and Karl-Heinz Steffens together with outstanding new talent such as Clara Jumi Kang and Denis Kozhukhin.

Vienna, the Viennese, adoptive Viennese, and waltzes—the three-day program ranged from classics to modern music: Of course, there were Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms, but also Arnold Schoenberg and the great symphonic composer Gustav Mahler, whose rare chamber music work Piano Quartet in A minor was performed. Special highlights included the melodic delights of two waltzes by Johann Strauss the Younger, which were arranged for a "salon ensemble" by Arnold Schönberg and Anton Webern.

Mendelssohn Bartholdy's octet is traditionally the finale of intonations. Unfortunately, this year it could not be performed; instead, along with the string quartet, the program included a work by the composer that thematically references the octet.

The concerts on 12 and 13 May 2020 were also broadcasted live on the radio, in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

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