Upper Austrian Abbey Concerts: Belcea Quartet

While the Quatuor Ébène was celebrated last summer in Kremsmünster, the Belcea Quartet will follow in June this year in the exquisite setting of Wilhering Abbey Church, which guarantees a special concert atmosphere. The Belcea Quartet was founded 30 years ago at the Royal College of Music in London and today, with the Romanian violinist Corina Belcea and the Polish violist Krzysztof Chorzelski, has a wide-ranging musical language. The ensemble will introduce itself with exciting works that allow us to hear Ludwig van Beethoven at the beginning of his time as a quartet composer, when the "Viennese influence" was not yet noticeable, even though his great respect for Mozart and Haydn made the Bonn master hesitate for a long time to tackle this difficult genre. And with Beethoven's Opus 127, the "highest peak of instrumental music" can be heard in the Stiftskirche, as the late string quartet was praised in 1825.