Grieg Quartett Leipzig
Gewandhaus Leipzig, Mendelssohn-Saal (Leipzig)
It's a match! The Spiegelsaal concerts are back – a co-operation between Clärchens Ballhaus and DSO. They were a hit with audiences in the over 100-year-old Spiegelsaal at Clärchens. Reason enough for a revival! The partners are reviving the traditional era of classical music in the Spiegelsaal with great chamber music: On Sunday 8 December, DSO musicians will perform pieces by Dmitri Shostakovich and Mieczysław Weinberg. The one-hour programme in the unique flair of the over 100-year-old Spiegelsaal is a must for all music and ballroom fans. Tickets are available at the box office only. First come, first served!
You can simply go to a concert at the Philharmonie, spontaneously, during your lunch break – and with free admission: every Wednesday at 13:00 between September and June. The programme lasts 40 to 50 minutes: chamber music, piano works or a percussion duo – everything from Tchaikovsky to tango. Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Karajan Academy regularly perform, as well as guests from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Berlin music conservatories. As can be expected at a lunch concert, catering is available from 12 noon until shortly before the concert begins.
Mieczysław Weinberg? Just over a decade ago, this name was not even familiar to the established classical music fans here in Germany. And to this day, the Polish-Russian composer who died in 1996 and who was under the pressure of two dictatorships (the German and the Soviet) is still considered an insider tip. Although word has now spread that Weinberg no longer has to hide behind his fellow sufferer and mentor Dmitry Shostakovich. He exchanged artistically with the father of Soviet music again and again, and he felt that he was his »flesh and blood« – Reason enough for the Hamburger Camerata to trace this special friendship musically in challenging times. Under the seasonal motto »Camerata concertante«, the programme includes four works by the two, which explore the tension between solo, chamber and orchestral music making as varied as the tension between personal freedom and political compulsion.
Ein Schaffensrausch gebiert meist Außergewöhnliches. Ob Weberns spätromantisch-frühes Klavierquintett, Weinbergs reicher Streichquartett-Schatz oder Schumanns wegweisendes, schwärmerisches Klavierquintett – alle drei Werke dieses Programms sind im Furor entstanden und werden Sie in ihren Bann ziehen und bezaubern. Anton Weberns Klavierquintett verströmt noch die romantische Luft von Brahms in seinem Streben nach dem Neuen, Mieczysław Weinbergs vielfältige, faszinierende Musik wird gerade erst entdeckt, während Schumanns Klavierquintett seit je als ein kammermusikalisches Highlight gilt.
Mit einem Kammerkonzert der besonderen Klasse bereichert das hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt in dieser Saison die Konzerte in der Stadthalle von Homberg (Efze). Ein Schaffensrausch gebiert meist Außergewöhnliches. Ob Weberns spätromantisch-frühes Klavierquintett, Weinbergs reicher Streichquartett-Schatz oder Schumanns wegweisendes, schwärmerisches Klavierquintett – alle drei Werke dieses Programms sind im Furor entstanden und werden Sie in ihren Bann ziehen und bezaubern. Anton Weberns Klavierquintett verströmt noch die romantische Luft von Brahms in seinem Streben nach dem Neuen, Mieczysław Weinbergs vielfältige, faszinierende Musik wird gerade erst entdeckt, während Schumanns Klavierquintett seit je als ein kammermusikalisches Highlight gilt.
Two trios and a quintet, each with obbligato piano, from Eastern European-West Asian spheres: by a refugee to Russia with Polish-Jewish roots, a present-day Armenian, and a Russian inclined towards German Romanticism. Mieczysław Weinberg's piano trio is full of inventive, striking motifs and captivates with its strong dramaturgical expressiveness. Anton Arensky's piano quintet is a mature masterpiece of sensual beauty and brilliance. In between is Tigran Mansurian's piano trio, a contemporary work and a discovery. Concert duration: approx. 110 minutes.