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Hamburger Camerata / Joanna Kamenarska
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
Ideally, they should all work together harmoniously: the wind and string instruments of an orchestra. Sometimes, however, it can also lead to astonishing listening experiences to experience the registers separately. And if works for string orchestra have a long tradition in music history anyway, it is only in keeping with the spirit of the »Camerata concertante« motto that the wind players of the Hamburg Camerata are also allowed to present themselves as a »concertante« ensemble at the end of the season! The programme for this concert therefore includes three works that explore the traditional variety of instrumentation in the serenade and divertimento genres in order to bring the different qualities of the orchestral sections to the fore: Dvořák’s all too rarely performed Serenade op. 44 is inspired by Mozart’s great wind piece, the »Gran Partita«. Bartók’s Divertimento, on the other hand, is based on the Baroque form of the »concerto grosso«, which is characterised by the typical alternation of solo and tutti passages within the string orchestra. And Mozart’s Divertimento K. 251 brings the strings and selected wind instruments together in a sonorous way.