Conceived in collaboration with the Luberon International String Quartet Festival, this program focuses on German and Austrian composers and the works they wrote between 1820 and 1830.

The program includes some original works by Beethoven for mandolin and keyboard, as well as several Schubert Lieder arranged by the famous Austrian guitarist Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856).

Two centuries apart, Thomas Keck has developed a new work based on four Schubert Lieder for the ‘string quartet’ of Ensemble C Barré, made up of mandolin, guitar, harp and cymbalum. The cymbalum will be featured in two short solo pieces by Hungarian composer György Kurtág.