On Saturday, the highlight of the festival will be celebrated with three concerts. The Belcea Quartet, one of the most renowned chamber music ensembles in the world, will kick things off in the morning at 11:00 am. In the almost 20-year history of "Music in the Giant", the Belcea Quartet has been a guest several times. This time, it will set Franz Schubert's string quartet movement in C minor and string quartet in D minor "Death and the Maiden" in relation to Dmitri Shostakovich's penultimate string quartet from 1973.
In the early evening, the four young Tyroleans - two pairs of siblings - perform together under the name Quartissimo. They are also preparing for this in the masterclass program "Impuls" with violist Krzysztof Chorzelski of the Belcea Quartet. He will work with them on the "American String Quartet" by Antonín Dvořák and the String Quartet in F minor op. 80 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. One can be curious!
The last item on the program will be a song recital with Andrè Schuen starting at 20:00. The young baritone, who hails from the Ladin valley of Badia in South Tyrol, made a name for himself as an opera and lieder singer in just a few years. He will be accompanied by Daniel Heide on the piano. Together they are a sought-after duo! Andrè Schuen and Daniel Heide also put their expressiveness and their feeling for fine shadings into their interpretation of the "Songs of Night and Farewell". Around Gustav Mahler's cycle "Kindertotenlieder" they chose works by Franz Schubert and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.