Events for 26. November 2022 - 5. October 2022

Program: Bonis Legendary Women, three pieces for orchestra Kodály Dances of Galánta Haydn Cello Concerto No.1 in C Major* Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol   Peter Luff conductor Rachael Tobin cello   From the event page: Australian hornist and former conductor Peter Luff joins the MSO to lead us through this eclectic dance program. French composer Mélanie "Mel" Bonis was highly regarded in her day, but as with many women in classical music, her presence has been largely suppressed throughout history. It's fitting, then, that she reveals three legendary women in this haunting piece with swirling harmonies and quiet power. Kodály is perhaps best known for inventing the Kodály Method - a system familiar to elementary school students and sound-of-music aficionados around the world, in which the notes of the scale are linked with hand signs (do, re, me, etc.). Another of Kodály's important contributions to music was his celebration of Hungarian folk melodies on the orchestral stage, such as these beguiling and unforgettable dances from Galánta, a town on the railroad line from Budapest to Vienna. The MSO's associate principal cellist, Rachael Tobin, performs Haydn's First Cello Concerto - a fluid and virtuosic performance of the instrument dancing in perfect counterpoint ...

Program: Bonis Legendary Women, three pieces for orchestra Kodály Dances of Galánta Haydn Cello Concerto No.1 in C Major* Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol   Peter Luff conductor Rachael Tobin cello   From the event page: Australian hornist and former conductor Peter Luff joins the MSO to lead us through this eclectic dance program. French composer Mélanie "Mel" Bonis was highly regarded in her day, but as with many women in classical music, her presence has been largely suppressed throughout history. It's fitting, then, that she reveals three legendary women in this haunting piece with swirling harmonies and quiet power. Kodály is perhaps best known for inventing the Kodály Method - a system familiar to elementary school students and sound-of-music aficionados around the world, in which the notes of the scale are linked with hand signs (do, re, me, etc.). Another of Kodály's important contributions to music was his celebration of Hungarian folk melodies on the orchestral stage, such as these beguiling and unforgettable dances from Galánta, a town on the railroad line from Budapest to Vienna. The MSO's associate principal cellist, Rachael Tobin, performs Haydn's First Cello Concerto - a fluid and virtuosic performance of the instrument dancing in perfect counterpoint ...

The exhibition "Female View" at Kunsthalle St. Annen focuses on the unjustly neglected fashion photography of female photographers. As a counterpart to this exhibition, which focuses on women's views of the female body, the programme of this very special concert of sound images features exclusively works by female composers. Music by the older French composers Lili Boulanger and Claude Arrieu will be heard, as well as works by contemporaries Ester Mägi from Estonia, Jacqueline Fontyn from Belgium, Barbara Heller from Germany, Violeta Dinescu from Romania and Onutė Narbutaitė from Lithuania. Diana Čemerytė, also from Lithuania, is composer in residence at this season's Klangbilder concerts. Her "Canticle of the Sun" in the version for violoncello and piano will receive its world premiere this evening. Violeta Dinescu's "Evening Prayer" will also receive its world premiere in the version for solo violin. In cooperation with the Kunsthalle St. Annen Program Jacqueline Fontyn (*1930) "Dear Joseph!" for violin, violoncello and piano (2007) Diana Čemerytė (*1974) "Sonnengesang" for violoncello and piano (2020), world premiere of this version Onutė Narbutaitė (b. 1956) "Night" and "Earth" from "June Music" for violin and violoncello (1981) Barbara Heller (*1936) "Herbstmusik" for violoncello and piano (2012) "Lalai - Lullaby to ...

Conductor: Johannes Fritzsch Time and more information to follow

Homage to Hildegard von Bingen Accordion: Mirjana Petercol, Further works by Gubaidulina and Dinescu

Conductor: Stenson McKenna Time to be announced

The concert will be recorded and made available on the Youtube channel UJA.Cultura! 

Conductor: Nicole Aldrich Time to be announced

From the organiser's website:  The creative life of César Franck coincided with the emergence of a number of female personalities in the very male-dominated milieu of French composers. While some of them worked in obscurity all their lives, others achieved real fame, only to be forgotten all too quickly by posterity. Conductor: Leo Hussain Soprano: Anaïs Constans Mezzo-soprano: Aude Extrémo Tenor: François Rougier Augusta HOLMÈS: Andromède Marie JAËLL: Ossiane: Song of Doubt Mel BONIS: Femmes de légende Nadia BOULANGER: La Sirène

Von der Veranstalterwebsite: “Tchaikovsky’s first true masterpiece”: Romeo and Juliet Dismissed by its composer as “a very noisy piece”, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture is likely his most oft-performed composition, a depiction in sound of Russia’s victory over Napoleon’s Grande Armée. Just as popular is the composer’s first musical rendering of a Shakespeare play, the fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet, with its musical portrayals of the young lovers’ passion against the background of their families’ seething mutual hatred. The radiant soprano Allison Pohl will take the stage for a bouquet of romantic songs by Richard Strauss. Two masterly explorations of classical forms will launch this wide-ranging program: Bach’s “Little” Fugue in g, and the haunting Passacaglia of Ljubica Marić (considered the most important of 20th century Serbian composers).