- Sonoko Miriam Welde, violin
- Edvard Erdal, violin
- Albin Uusijärvi, viola
- Daniel Thorell, cello
Julian Bliss, clarinet
Joseph Haydn:String Quartet in C major op. 76 No. 3 ("Emperor Quartet")
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Quartet in A minor op. 13
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor op. 115
If a string quartet names itself after Mendelssohn's A minor Quartet op. 13, the first piece that the four of them played together as teenagers in Oslo, then the youthful passion and ambitious drive of this music transforms into the motto of the ensemble. It is no surprise that Opus13, winner of the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2025, will present this very composition as the centerpiece of their performance in Eisenstadt. Haydn's venerable "Emperor Quartet" with variations on the hymn "God Save Emperor" pays tribute to the genius loci. Additionally, a wonderful late work by the Haydn admirer Johannes Brahms fulfills the festival title "quartetto plus": The versatile English clarinetist Julian Bliss joins in for Brahms’ Opus 115, in which the composer reveals his love for Hungarian music once again.