International Mendelssohn Festival 2024

Crussell / Rautavaara / Sallinen

This concert has already taken place! 11 | 29 | 42 | 55
This concert has already taken place! 11 | 29 | 42 | 55
Frans Helmerson
Frans Helmerson © Franz Hamm
Arto Noras
Arto Noras
Talich Quartet
Talich Quartet © Radek Kalhous
  • Doors open 18:30

  • Start 19:30

  • Interval

  • End ca. 21:30

La Sonnambula

Mikhail Glinka’s »Divertimento brillante« dates from a time when Glinka was living in Italy and saw the world premiere of Bellini’s bel canto opera »La Sonnambula« at La Scala in Milan. The melodic material comes from this opera, Glinka’s Divertimento consists of just one long movement with a brilliant finale, from which the work undoubtedly takes its name. The first half of the concert focuses on Finland’s musical heritage, including »Don Juanquijoten Virtuoosinen Pöytämusiikki« (The Virtuoso Table Music of Don Quixote) by Aulis Sallinen, which was written to celebrate the 70th birthday of cellist Arto Noras and premiered by Noras in Helsinki in 2012. Noras himself also performs this work here in Hamburg. In Janáček’s »Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs«, the stage belongs entirely to the strings of the Czech Talich Quartet, while Dohnányi’s Sextet, Op. 73 forms the finale, a work composed entirely in the spirit of late Romanticism, yet also infected by the zeitgeist: with a kind of ragtime for clarinet and piano in the finale.

Performers

André Cazalet french horn

Michel Lethiec clarinet

Jean-Louis Capezzali oboe

Matthias Lingenfelder violin

Hartmut Rohde viola

Frans Helmerson violoncello

Arto Noras violoncello

Oliver Triendl piano

Talich Quartet

Jan Talich violin
Roman Patočka violin
Radim Sedmidubský viola
Michal Kaňka violoncello

Programme

Henrik Bernhard Crussell
Divertimento in C major, Op. 9

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Two Preludes and Fugues, Op. 36

Aulis Sallinen
Don Juanquijoten Virtuoosinen Pöytämusiikki (The Virtuoso Table Music of Don Quixote) for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 98

Michail Glinka
Divertimento brillante in A-flat major

– Interval –

Leoš Janáček
Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs

Ernst von Dohnányi
Sextet in C major, Op. 37 for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, Violoncello and Piano

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