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NOSPR Chamber Musicians / Ysaÿe / Enescu / Chamber music but with symphonic flair

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Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 19:30
It is a rare opportunity to listen to an octet. This type of ensemble on the verge of chamber and orchestral music involving eight instruments has had a variety of instrumentations and patterns based on them. The reference point for the purely stringed ensemble cast is the octet written in 1825 by Felix Mendelssohn, who was only sixteen years old then. Following in his footsteps in 1900 was the nineteen-year-old George Enescu, who was by then already quite prolific as... Read full text

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Piotr TarcholikViolin
Sulamita ŚlubowskaViolin
Kinga TomaszewskaViolin
Anna PacholczakViolin
Beata RaszewskaViola
Dawid JadamusViola
Łukasz FrantCello
Natalia Kurzac-KotulaCello

Program

Eugène YsaÿeSonata for Two Violins in A Minor, part 1
George EnescuString Octet in C major, op. 7
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