Chamber music is one of the most perilous exercises in the repertoire. Each instrumentalist is the only one holding his or her own voice, and is therefore a soloist, but must never overshadow his or her neighbours. The balance is delicate, and it is necessary to find – sometimes at the cost of great technical difficulties – one’s rightful place. The candidates in the final round are confronted with a few burning examples from the great chamber music corpus of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Alexander Chaushian
Cello
Ashley Wass
Piano
Augustin Dumay
Violin
James Brown
Viola
Stella Chen
Violin
Mihaela Martin
Violin
Ingolf Turban
Violin
Pavel Vernikov
Violin