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CHAMBER CONCERT: String Sextet

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Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 20:00
In this concert, our musicians will present two major works for string sextet. When his Sixth Symphony was to be printed in 1809, Beethoven decided on the title “Pastoral Symphony or Memory of Country Life”. In this atmospheric work, he created a yearningly imagined world of nature – as already expressed in the title of the first movement: “Cheerful feelings awake upon arriving in the countryside”. The score contains both birdsong and a musical thunderstorm. The version for string sextet... Read full text

Keywords: Chamber Music, Symphony Concert

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Musicians

Harald Strauss-OrlovskyViolin
Barbara WittenbergViolin
Wen Xiao ZhengViola
Wakana OnoViola
Tobias TauberCello
Guilherme Nardelli MonegattoCello

Program

Symphonie Nr. 6 F-Dur op. 68 »Pastorale« (Fassung für Streichsextett: Michael Gotthardt Fischer, 1810)Ludwig van Beethoven
Streichsextett d-Moll op. 70 »Souvenir de Florence«Piotr Tchaikovsky
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