Soup with bassoon and harp

Date & Time

Fri, Sep 27, 2024, 12:15

Venue

Konserthuset Stockholm, The Grünewald Hall (Stockholm)

Welcome to a soup concert featuring the exciting combination of bassoon and harp. Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra's bassoonist Jens-Christoph Lemke, together with guest harpist Margareta Nilsson, presents a program ranging from Franz Schubert's well-known Ständchen to a true rock classic - Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody!The program also includes beautifully melancholic music by the French harpist and composer Bernard Andrès, Deborah Henson-Conant's fiery Baroque Flamenco for solo harp, and an elegant arrangement of Puccini's famous aria Vissi d’arte from Tosca.Jens-Christoph Lemke has... Read full text

Keywords: Chamber Music

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Musicians

Jens-Christoph Lemke	Bassoon
Margareta Nilsson	Harp

Program

Chants d’arrière-saison for bassoon and harp	Bernard Andrès
Ständchen "Leise flehen" from Schwanengesang, version for bassoon and harp	Franz Schubert
Baroque Flamenco for harp	Deborah Henson-Conant
Vissi d’arte from Tosca, version for bassoon and harp	Giacomo Puccini
Bohemian Rhapsody, version for bassoon and harp	Freddie Mercury
Torna a Surriento!	Ernesto De Curtis

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