Unusual chamber music with musicians from the KHO awaits you this evening: string players will not only perform a quartet by opera specialist Puccini, who is  rarely heard at our concert hall, but also have invited the highest woodwind instrument, the piccolo, to join them.

“There actually is original literature for piccolo and strings,” says principal piccoloist Daniel Werner. “For example, the quartet by Allan Stephenson that we are playing. It is contemporary, but very classically structured, with a first movement featuring exposition and development, and a beautiful slow second movement.” Playing Mozart's oboe quartet has been a long-held wish of the musician: “There is only one recording in this instrumentation. But I think the piece suits the piccolo just as well as the oboe. And it helps to dispel the preconception that this small instrument is always loud and high-pitched. Incidentally, I get the greatest pleasure when I get to play passages together with the strings in the orchestra, as I did recently in Boléro – I love that colour.”