New album release: A Dark Flaring
We’re delighted to release our next album on ECM Records, titled A Dark Flaring: Works for String Quartet from South Africa. These are works we have been playing in the most important concert venues across the world for the past ten years, and which we recorded in our beloved Sendesaal in Bremen in March 2022. We are overjoyed to see them released here, where they will be able to find a wider audience.
SIGNUM open space website
SIGNUM open space has a new website! Here you can learn about our newly constituted registered association SIGNUM open space e.V, and see what’s on at the Überseeinsel.
OPUS Klassik 2024: Chamber Music Recording of the Year
We’re overjoyed at winning our second OPUS Klassik, this time for our Schubert album “Lebensmuth”, released for PENTATONE. This is a great honour, and we are thankful for the recognition.
“Bridge the chasms that divide”
New works for string quartet 30 years after the fall of apartheid in South Africa
For our new project, we invite some of South Africa‘s most original and powerful voices to reflect musically on their own experiences and journeys before and after 1994. “Bridge the chasms that divide“ will launch in Bremen on South African Freedom Day, exactly 30 years after the first free and fair elections took place.
SIGNUM open space on the Überseeinsel
We have our new home in the former Kellogg’s premises, surely the most exciting neighbourhood in Bremen!
SIGNUM open space is a cultural space where everyone is welcome, where a lively exchange can take place and where high-quality artistic programmes are offered. Everyone is cordially invited to discover new things in an informal setting and to experience art and music across all genres.
Carnegie Hall debut
“This concert, coming late in the season, was one of its highlights.”
Press
A Dark Flaring
“superbly played […] tremendous performances and pitch-perfect sound”—Gramophone
Lebensmuth
“breathtaking”—The Strad recommends
Lebensmuth
“Intoxicating and deeply moving. Sublime ensemble playing.”—concerti
Ins stille Land
“a deeply moving experience”—Strings Magazine
Aus der Ferne
“one of the most sensitive interpretations ever recorded.”—Diapason
“Fury, tenderness, terror, sardonic humour and resignation were here in a journey that left the listener bruised and breathless“—The Times
Supported by:
Heinz Peter und Annelotte Koch-Stiftung
