Events for 18. June 2022 - 26. May 2022

Crouch End Festival Chorus London Mozart Players David Temple: conductor Julia Doyle: soprano Rebecca Afonwy-Jones: mezzo-soprano Ronald Samm: tenor Ashley Riches: baritone Felix Mendelssohn From Heaven on High Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Lure Felix Mendelssohn Psalm 42 Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Job Cantata Felix Mendelssohn The first Walpurgis Night The music of Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel holds a wealth of unforgettable experiences - from the drama of raging battles in the mountains to exquisite choral settings. In this concert, the renowned Crouch End Festival Chorus presents a selection of works by both siblings, with Fanny given her due alongside her better-known brother. Felix's works include Die erste Walpurgisnacht, a dramatic cantata set on a dark mountain where Druids and Christians are in conflict. Stylistically, the music goes back to Haydn and forward to Wagner and Mahler. Vom Himmel hoch is a beautiful work that is entirely in the style of Felix's great model, J.S. Bach. Fanny's works include Lockung, an exquisite a cappella vocal song, and the more substantial Hiob Cantata for chorus, soloists, and orchestra. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Program: Nadia Boulanger: Three pieces for violoncello and piano Lili Boulanger: Trio for violin, violoncello and piano Mél Bonis: Quartet No. 1 for piano and strings Florentine Mulsant: Quintet for piano and strings, world premiere     From the event website: Through works for piano and strings, this concert pays tribute to four French women composers, past and present: Mel Bonis, Florentine Mulsant, and the Boulanger sisters. How many women, like Clara Schumann or Fanny Mendelssohn, had to see their careers as composers sacrificed to social conventions? Mel Bonis, whose real name was Melanie Bonis, knew this all too well, choosing a pseudonym so that her music could be judged as that of a man. A classmate of Debussy, she left behind a significant corpus of 300 works, including the expressive piano quartet n˚1. The two sisters Lili and Nadia Boulanger also showed an extraordinary disposition toward music from childhood. Although the younger Lili died young at 25, she had time to compose some 50 works, while the elder Nadia, in addition to composing her own works, taught nearly 1200 students, including Leonard Bernstein and Michel Legrand, to compose. Florentine Mulsant, from whom a world premiere will be heard, received ...

Program TCHAIKOVSKY | Romeo and Juliet PROKOFIEV | Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat, Op. 1 Soloist: Anastasia Solomatina MARIĆ | Passacaglia (US Premiere!) TCHAIKOVSKY | 1812 Overture, Op. 49   Time to be announced! Current information on the page of the organizer

Hohenheim University Orchestra Conductor Klaus Breuninger   More information coming soon: Website of the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Hohenheim (Also the time can still change)

From the organizer's site: Join the Andover Choral Society for performances of Antonio Vivaldi's brilliant and beloved Gloria, a melodious and masterfully crafted cantata by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and the world premiere of a new choral work commissioned by the Andover Choral Society, "becoming," by local composer Demetrius Spaneas.

Hohenheim University Orchestra Conductor Klaus Breuninger   More information coming soon: Website of the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Hohenheim (Also the time can still change)

Cleopatra revisited Conductor: David Reiland Soloist: Anne Schwanewilms, soprano   Program: Bonis, Three Legendary Women: Le Songe de Cléopâtre Berlioz, The Death of Cleopatra, h 36 Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique: Episode from the Life of an Artist, in Five Parts, op.14

Cleopatra revisited Conductor: David Reiland Soloist: Anne Schwanewilms, soprano   Program: Bonis, Three Legendary Women: Le Songe de Cléopâtre Berlioz, The Death of Cleopatra, h 36 Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique: Episode from the Life of an Artist, in Five Parts, op.14

Conductor: Speranza Scappucci Trumpet: Lucienne Renaudin Vary Piano: Isata Kanneh-Mason Fanny Mendelssohn Overture in C major Clara Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor op. 7 Intermission Johann Nepomuk Hummel Trumpet Concerto Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" op. 61 MWV M 13 (excerpts from the incidental music) In cooperation with the Müller-Möhl Foundation