BRAND-NEW LOEVENDIE 
Enescu’s exciting, overwhelming String Octet is rarely played. You could call it an early work by a 19-year-old composer, but one in which he pools all of his talent at once, like ‘an engineer building his first suspension bridge over a river.’ And that sounds modern – Enescu lived in Vienna around 1890 – full of chromaticism, cut-up themes, even waves of Romanian folk and gypsy music. Perfect for the curious dynamic that Roctet brings to the stage time and time again, and today it includes a brand-new piece by Theo Loevendie called Changes. 

Roctet 
Joris van Rijn - violin 
Julija Hartig - violin 
Filipe Fernandes - violin 
Masha Iakovleva - violin 
Francien Schatborn - viola 
Frank Brakkee - viola 
Anneke Janssen - cello 
Eveline Kraayenhof - cello