Initially created to accompany the conductor and pianist András Schiff in his concerts dedicated to Mozart, the chamber orchestra Cappella Andrea Barca retains its intermittent existence, and is revived with different musicians whenever Schiff decides to present a new repertoire. “When I’m so deeply absorbed in a composer, as I have been with Beethoven,” he said in an interview, “then I physically and mentally begin to feel like him. Beethoven changed me as a person.” The programme tonight also allows a glimpse of that particular connection.

Cappella Andrea Barca
András Schiff Piano 

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Quintet, in B-flat major, op. 16 

(András Schiff, Louise Pellerin, Riccardo Crocilla, Marie-Luise Neunecker, Stefan Schweigert)

Antonin Dvorák
String Quintet No.2, in G major, op. 77 

(Panocha Quartet, Christian Sutter)

Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No.2, in A major, op. 26

(András Schiff, Erich Höbarth, Hariolf Schlichtig, Christoph Richter)