Chamber Music in the Village Church of Kleinhüningen: Winter

Description

The Klybeck Quarter in Basel—Amid this modern blend of industry, transportation, working-class suburbs, and music, which inspires creative processes, lies a lovely green oasis. Within it stands the charming village church of Kleinhüningen, which, with its distinctive onion-domed tower, is Basel’s only Baroque church!
Four times a year—in the fall, winter, spring, and summer—various groups from La Cetra perform chamber music in the small church, a genre that is now rarely cultivated in such an intimate setting, followed by a cozy aperitif. The double bass secured its place in the chamber music repertoire in the 18th century—for example, in Rossini’s brilliant string sonatas. In these witty, cheerful, lively, and poetic quartets, which he composed as a young child prodigy, his melodic genius and his instinct for opera buffa are already clearly evident. Artists
Katharina Heutjer & Johannes Frisch, violins
Jonathan Pešek, cello
Federico Abraham, double bass