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2024-04-24 08:20:00
The 13th Lewes Chamber Music Festival takes place from 6 to 8 June 2024 with artistic director Beatrice Philips bringing together 18 of today's most exciting chamber-musicians and soloists to explore the musical ties between Europe and America through celebrating the 150th birthdays of Arnold SchoenBerg and Charles Ives, including SchoenBerg's Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Ode to Napoleon with actor Samuel West, and rare chamber versions of larger scale works by Richard Strauss and Mahler.The weekend opens with early piano quartets by Mahler and Richard Strauss along with music by Elliott Carter and Anton Webern's quintet arrangement of SchoenBerg's Chamber Symphony No.1, and there is more SchoenBerg with a late-night performance of Verklärte Nacht. And the festival will include more SchoenBerg along with performances of music by Berg, Zemlinsky, Schulhoff, Korngold, Hindemith, Brahms, Ives, Amy Beach and Gershwin.A wonderfully ambitious gala concert features Guido Martin-Brandis' arrangement of the magical closing scenes from […]
2024-04-23 07:26:00
Attention must be paid: the Engegård Quartet at Conway Hall in Mozart, Bartok, Maja Ratkje, and Fanny Mendelssohn
[…] singing line, answered by the fine elegance of Arvid Engegård's violin. The minuet had a crisp, no-nonsense feel to it, with disturbing moments in the trio, whilst the final Allegro assai was rather catchy, with a delightful character to the playing, carefree at first but then getting darker and more complex.Bartok's Quartet No. 3 dates from 1927 and the work was his most advance and most tightly constructed quartet to date, the composer having heard Berg's Lyric Suite the year before being a big influence, along with the continuing underpinning of Hungarian folk-music. The opening section was intense and concentrated, four independent lines in vibrant and sometimes painful counterpoint, at times uncompromising yet with moments of tenderness. The second section was vivid, with folk-inspired motifs played with remarkable strength. The quartet created a sense of a closely worked argument with four independent people, attention must be paid. The third section […]
All the conducting master class
2024-04-10 08:25:00
Wiener Meisterkurse Conducting Program with Maestros Alexis Hauser (McGill) and Jörg Birhance (EMIV)
Three master courses happening between 22 July and 10 August 2024 in Vienna Repertoire: Opera: Mozart, Così fan tutte Symphonic: Haydn | Beethoven | Schubert | SchoenBerg | Berg | Wellesz Program: The symphonic courses are designed for 6-10 active conductors, the opera for a maximum of 4. No age limit. Please note study and conducting experience […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-08 22:11:22
Thanks to a commission from the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien, a 70-minute oratorio for chamber ensemble and two singers received its US debut at BC’s Gasson Hall on Saturday night. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
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