Extending String Quartet: Grande sestetto concertante

What is good comes fast. Those who, like the Leonkoro Quartet, win prizes from the Concertgebouw, the German Schallplattenkritik and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust within a few months need prove nothing more. After their smashing debut during the 2024 edition, the String Quartet Biennale is proud to program the Berlin foursome again, with Mozart and Mendelssohn. What’s rock solid comes super-fast. Well before Spotify, music lovers relied on arrangements to learn concertos for soloists and orchestra. Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante began a new life as a string sextet in 1804 and became extraordinarily popular in that format. The Leonkoros, together with Takehiro Konoe and Julian Steckel, make way for the Grande sestetto concertante.