NDR Chamber Music Concert: With French Horn and Flute
Bonis / Koechlin / Martinů / Brahms / Doppler
Musical idyll of nature
Inspired by a visit to Mount Rigi in Switzerland, the Romantic composer and flute virtuoso Franz Doppler composed a piece of music reflecting the peaceful yet diverse idyll of nature. The selected instruments – horn, flute and piano – evoke the alphorn and the flutes of Switzerland’s Alpine herdsmen.
Johannes Brahms’s Horn Trio is also closely connected to nature. The opening melody is said to have come to the composer during a walk in the woods near Baden-Baden in 1865. It was important to him that a natural horn was used – and not the valve horn that was already popular by that time.
The musical and compositional talent of Melanie Bonis, who was born in Paris in 1858, was discovered at an early age and developed at the Paris Conservatory. Despite that, she had to fight to continue on her path as a composer. »Scenes from the Forest« dates from the composer’s late period, when she lived a very reclusive life.
Bohuslav Martinů is one of the Czech Republic’s best-known composers. In 1923 he moved to Paris, where he composed the Sonata for Flute, Violin and Piano in 1936. In the work, he revels musically in memories of his homeland, with echoes of Czech folk music.
Performers
Jürgen Franz flute
Claudia Strenkert french horn
Rodrigo Reichel violin
Ulrike Payer piano
Programme
Mélanie Bonis
Scènes da la forêt
Charles Koechlin
Deux Noctrunes op. 32 bis
Bohuslav Martinů
Sonate für Flöte, Violine und Klavier H 254
– Interval –
Johannes Brahms
Trio für Violine, Horn und Klavier Es-Dur op. 40
Albert Franz Doppler
Souvenir du Rigi op. 34
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