Keywords: Chamber Music
| Orchester Berliner Musikfreunde | Orchestra |
| Yukari Ishimoto | Conductor |
| Synthèse Quartet | Saxophone quartet |
| Javier Valero | Soprano saxophone |
| Ángela Romera | Alto saxophone |
| Ismael Arroyo | Tenor Saxophone |
| Aina Font Zaragoza | Tenor Saxophone |
| Raúl Flox | Baritone saxophone |
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Film Scores by Hans Zimmer, John Williams and other composers
Film Scores by Hans Zimmer, John Williams and other composers
For many years now, Lunchtime Concerts have been held in the Main Hall and the Recital Hall. The concerts range from public rehearsals by the Concertgebouworkest, to chamber music performances by young up-and-coming artists.For Lunchtime Concerts you will require a free ticket, which you can buy online. Doors to the concert hall open about 30 minutes before the Lunchtime Concert starts.We offer a broad range of music: the majority of concerts include classical music, but you can sometimes hear more modern repertoire. The concert programme is announced one week in advance on our website. The concerts last thirty minutes and are free of charge. Visitors are advised that these concerts are suitable for children from six years old.
Diverse tonal colours, intense emotions: These qualities characterise the music of the Romantic period. This concert with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra shows just how broad an expressive spectrum could be encompassed by works from this period. Franz Schubert is featured, with his lyrical and intriguing “Unfinished” Symphony and melancholy “Lacrimoso son io”; also on the programme are Mendelssohn's liltingly lively “Scottish”’ Symphony and Richard Wagner's Siegfried Idyll: a tender declaration of love to his wife Cosima. Raphaël Pichon, best-known for his refreshing approach to early music, conducts.
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The German music journalists Eleonore Büning, Susann El Kassar, Joachim Mischke and Albrecht Thiemann are the »Quartet of Critics«. This panel of experts regularly discusses important works of classical music and is made up of different members for each discussion. As part of the Hamburg International Music Festival, the quartet will be taking on Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony, which can be heard in concert with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Vladimir Jurowski. What does the Eighth Symphony mean to us today? How is and how has it been interpreted since its Moscow premiere in 1943, in the middle of the war? Why is the Eighth still overshadowed by his Seventh, the legendary »Leningrad« Symphony? Are we dealing with genuinely »Russian« music? The quartet of critics discusses these and other questions on the basis of numerous audio samples from the five movements of the composition. In a direct comparison of various recordings – both historical and more recent – they paint a multi-layered picture of a masterpiece that is still underrated. Music critics and journalists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland have joined forces in the »German Record Critics’ Award« association to regularly honour outstanding music and word productions. This committee of a maximum of 160 jurors attaches great importance to reaching independent judgements, uninfluenced by the interests of record and/or audio book producers. A »quartet of critics« meets regularly to publicly discuss a particular work and compare recordings.
Haydn wrote the Quartet in C major op. 54 No. 2, both virtuosic and exceptionally deep in its artistry, with Johann Tost, a violinist of the Esterhazy orchestra he was leading, in mind. Much to his surprise, he later learnt that the musician had sold the work to the publisher Seiber, keeping all money for himself. What was more, the quartet was published with changes unauthorised by Haydn. In his Quartet No. 3, Brahms obviously references the Viennese classic, creating a work of classical subjectivity, with all-encompassing sense of humour, and a tiny bit of the romantic emotionality in the slow movement, reminding us clearly of that being a completely different era already. Krzysztof Meyer, in turn, freely admits that the composition Au-delà d’une absence is a quartet in the style of his teacher, Dmitri Shostakovich. It is an attempt at continuing the Russian composer’s unfinished plan of writing 24 string quartets in all keys. An interesting and successful attempt, let us add. Adam SuprynowiczConcert duration (intermission included): approximately 100 minutes
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