Quintessence Saxophone Quintet

Wind Quintet

Wind quintet

The wind players of the Dresden Philharmonic lead through various sound worlds: Richard Dubugnon's "Frenglish Suite" charmingly combines French elegance and British wit. Erkki-Sven Tüür's "Architectonics I," on the other hand, is a modern sound experiment - like an exciting architectural journey through music. György Orbán's Quintet impresses with rhythmic drive and Hungarian temperament, while James MacMillan's "Untold" touches with its intensity and emotionality. The conclusion is Carl Nielsen's Quintet, a masterpiece full of warmth, lightness, and typical Nordic melancholy.

Signum Saxophone Quartet

SIGNUM saxophone quartet

Saxophone!

Saxophone!

It is rare for an instrument to bear the name of its inventor. Like the saxophone, which was first created in the early 1840s as an experiment for brass bands, but soon made the Frenchman Adolphe Sax world-famous. The success of the instrument was so great that gradually a whole family emerged: from the small sopranino (just 29 cm long) to soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone – up to the powerful bass instruments. They all share the golden yellow color of the shiny polished brass – and of course, the characteristic sound that makes the saxophone unique in jazz as well as on the concert stage. Grades 5-8

CHAMBER CONCERT: Brass Quintet

Featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Kevin McKee, Leonard Bernstein and others.From our brass quintet’s music cabinet! Compositions for brass chamber ensemble were a rarity in Bach and Handel's day. It was not until the late 19th century that the brass band emerged, becoming particularly popular in America. This new trend meant that the previously neglected brass players were finally able to shine in works written especially for them. Our quintet has unearthed a range of exciting arrangements and breathtaking originals for this entertaining chamber concert – featuring roses without thorns, trees that fall in love, and horses made of steel!

Chamber concert: Piano quintet

This programme is inspired by a world of romantic feelings: Brahms had been tinkering with the composition of a quintet since 1862 – at a time when he was continually fragile due to failures and said despondently: »When you go on 30 and feel weak like I do, you like to lock yourself up and look at the walls in your sadness«. Nevertheless, he became self-confident, exercised, learned Latin and felt, »I'm growing!« Moreover, the Hamburg-born composer moved to his adopted home of Vienna, where he lived near the Prater and could drink his wine »where Beethoven used to drink it«. In 1864, he finally finished the piano quintet, about which his soulmate Clara Schumann raved: »I feel after the work as if I had read a great tragic story.« The remarkable composition captivates with a plethora of original thoughts that are artfully developed – it is also filled with a profound seriousness in long parts. Elgar‘s moving piano quintet also bears witness to a similar state of mind: it was composed in 1918/19 at a time when his life was overshadowed by worries, illnesses, fears and the loss of loved ones in the wake of the horrors of war. Despite his great fame in London, the highly sensitive composer retreated to the countryside to find a break from the world's noise – to which he soon had nothing more to say in music: he wrote only a few works, such as the piano quintet. Even though it sounds at times belligerently agitated, a gloomy mood and a sheer overwhelming nostalgia spreads again and again as a witness to his broken soul – after all, he noted at the time: »Everything comforting and hopeful in my life is irretrievably over«.

Chamber concert: String quintet

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Kulturnatt Stockholm – Wind Quintet

Meet top-level young musicians in an intimate concert where both audience and performers share the stage of the Main Hall at Konserthuset Stockholm. With the lights dimmed, this atmospheric event offers a close-up experience of live classical music – either seated on stage (subject to availability) or in the stalls. To be this close to the music is truly special!The musicians are students of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s International Orchestra Academy – an advanced, international training programme for exceptionally gifted young musicians. Under the guidance of Royal Stockholm Philharmonic section leaders and the School of Music in Piteå, the students receive intensive training in orchestral, chamber and individual performance.They also present themselves in a series of public chamber concerts – like this one, featuring music by the Czech composer Antonín Dvorák. The programme includes his String Quartet No. 12, performed here in an arrangement for wind quintet. This work is often referred to as “The American”, as it was composed during a summer break from his post at the National Conservatory in New York. Dvorák spent the holiday in the town of Spillville, Iowa, home to a large Czech community.More on RSPO Orchestra Academy ***Please noteBags larger than A4 (approx. 30x20 cm) may not be brought into Konserthuset during Kulturnatt Stockholm.