The composer Johannes Brahms is on holiday at Lake Starnberg. He takes a room in an inn, hires the rickety piano so that no one else will disturb him with their tinkling, and plays a melody that he can’t get out of his head. He plays it again and again, changes it – and then he’s right in the middle of composing. And there they are: the variations on the beautiful »Chorale St Antoni« – a real catchy tune.
Where is the waltz at home? Exactly, in Vienna. It was there that the North German composer Johannes Brahms was inspired and became an enthusiastic waltz pianist. But wouldn’t »singing waltzes« be even more beautiful, he thought. Of course, and so he composed the entertaining »Liebeslieder-Walzer«. Singing and dancing along is definitely encouraged!
The composers Georg Philipp Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach were true all-rounders and geniuses. In this concert, the audience is cordially invited to discover lively, varied and colourful flute concertos by these three Baroque masters, including Bach’s world-famous Badinerie.
Liudmila Minnibaeva (violinist in the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra) and Tinatin Gambashidze perform a colourful journey through music history for the »Dance into May«. Whether it’s a quadrille, waltz, polka, mazurka or minuet – there’s plenty of room for cheerful dancing on the stage in the Rolf Liebermann Studio.
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