…out of this world
Dance & String Quartet – Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ and Ezio Bosso
Death comes in the guise of a woman. She does not threaten; she woos. And in the end, she embraces us – something none of us can resist.
Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ is among the most harrowing works ever written for four strings – music by a twenty-seven-year-old who already knew he had little time left. This quartet is not merely played, but danced. Three figures embody the main characters: Schubert himself, devoted to beauty and in search of it; Death, silent and seductive. And a second composer who was heading towards the same horizon – the Italian Ezio Bosso, who celebrated life right up to the very end. His Fifth String Quartet, ‘Music for the Lodger’, responds to Schubert across more than two centuries.
The music is performed by the CHAARTS chamber artists – the Swiss ensemble founded in 2010 at the Künstlerhaus Boswil, which in 2026 became the first in the country to take to the stage at the OPUS-KLASSIK Gala in Berlin. The CHAARTS are right at the heart of the action.
Programme
Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden’, D 810
Ezio Bosso: String Quartet No. 5 ‘Music for the Lodger’
Letters by Franz Schubert and Ezio Bosso
Running time approx. 75 minutes. Box office and doors open at 6.30 pm, admission to the hall at 7.00 pm.
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Thursday, November 19, 2026
19:30 - 20:45 o'clock
CHF 50.00 / 40.00
Advance tickets available online via the CHAARTS chamber artists ticket shop. Tickets on the door at the Kurtheater Baden from 6.30 pm. Category 1 CHF 50.–, Category 2 CHF 40.–.
Giulia Tonelli, artistic director and dancer
Michele Pastorini, choreographer and dancer
Marc Jubete Bascompte, dancer
CHAARTS chamber artists: David Castro-Balbi and Flavia Grubenmann (violin), Oszkár Varga (viola), Andreas Fleck (cello)