Philharmonic Chamber Music Concert
Hamburg International Chamber Music Festival
The poems that Fauré’s cycle »La bonne chanson« are based on were written by Paul Verlaine in a year of the greatest personal happiness: after many years of suicidal thoughts, drunken capers and outbursts of violence, the marriage to Mathilde Mauté finally dissolved these tensions, and it is to her that Verlaine dedicated the poems. Fauré himself fell in love in summer 1892 with the talented soprano and married mother of two children, Emma Bardac, and this sudden passion inspired him to write the cycle »La bonne chanson« for Emma.
Webern’s Rondo is a piece from his youth, and can be ascribed more to the mood of the Viennese fin de siècle than to the highly concentrated and reduced style that was typical of his later work. Notwithstanding, first signs can be found of the new path Webern was to follow.
The concert is rounded off by a true chamber music classic: Schumann’s sole piano quintet, dedicated to his wife Clara, who was also the work’s first interpreter.
Performers
Dorottya Láng mezzo-soprano
Hibiki Oshima violin
Josephine Nobach violin
Minako Uno viola
Clara Grünwald violoncello
Franziska Kober double bass
Volker Krafft piano
Programme
Anton Webern
Rondo für Streichquartett
Gabriel Fauré
La bonne chanson für Gesang, Klavier und Streichquintett op. 61
Robert Schumann
Klavierquintett Es-Dur op. 44
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