International Mendelssohn Festival
Fanny Hensel / Bach / Beethoven
Prelude with old acquaintances
The International Mendelssohn Festival opens its programme for the eighth time. With an exclusive array of chamber music played by international artists who have a special connection with this festival. In this inaugural concert, the famous Fine Arts Quartet plays Beethoven’s String Quartet in C minor op. 18, one of his early quartets, whose breadth particularly in the first movement opens up new worlds of chamber music.
Performers
Nobuko Imai viola
Arto Noras violoncello
Jens Bomhardt double bass
Alon Goldstein piano
Fine Arts Quartet
Efim Boico violin
Ralph Evans violin
Gil Sharon viola
Niklas Schmidt violoncello
Programme
Fanny Hensel
September / Das Jahr – zwölf Charakterstücke für Klavier
Johann Sebastian Bach
Präludium und Fuge e-Moll BWV 855 / aus: Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Band 1 (Arrangement: Alexander Siloti)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Lied ohne Worte
Johann Sebastian Bach
Schafe können sicher weiden / Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! BWV 208 (Arrangement: Egon Petri)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Streichquartett c-Moll op. 18/4
– Interval –
Richard Strauss
Streichsextett / aus der Oper »Capriccio« op. 85
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester F-Dur KV 459 (Bearbeitung: Ignaz Lachner)