Night pieces in Engelberg

Rafael Rosenfeld and Mary Ellen Woodside are the artistic directors of this festival, which has been taking place every fall for the past five years. In addition to the Merel Quartet, numerous other musicians will be performing, including Juliane Bans, Claudio Martínez, Roman Rabinovich and Jürg Dähler.

The opening concert sets the mood for the musical variety to come with Ottorino Respighi's "Il Tramonto" (The Sunset) for mezzo-soprano and string quartet. There will be a tango night followed by the matinee "Appartions", which will focus on "Ainsi la nuit" by Henri Dutilleux. In the evening concert "Rencontres nocturnes", Roland Moser's string quartet of the same name with mezzo-soprano will be premiered and finally, Arnold Schönberg's string sextet "Verklärte Nacht" will be performed in the closing concert.