In 1991, four musicians with diverse musical backgrounds joined forces in Munich to found the Rosamunde Quartet. From the outset, the ensemble received significant support from Sergiu Celibidache and Heinrich Schiff. Just one year after its formation, the quartet celebrated a major success at the Berlin Festival and, as one critic emphasized, was admitted "into the elite of the esteemed guild of string quartets." Since then, they have been regular performers at major festivals. The music of the Czech composer Burian, long underappreciated, has fascinated the quartet from the very beginning. In their program, they juxtapose Burian's Fourth String Quartet with Shostakovich's Eighth, exploring the eventful lives of both composers. The program opens with Weber's "Slow Movement," considered a farewell to Romanticism.
