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Carnegie Hall Presents

Chamber Sessions I

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Wednesday, Dec 1, 2010 | 7:30 PM
Risør Chamber Music Festival
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano
  • Marc-André Hamelin, Piano
  • Martin Fröst, Clarinet
  • Øyvind Bjorå, Violin
  • Risør Festival Strings

Program

  • BARTÓK Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano
  • HONEGGER Symphony No. 2, "Symphonie pour cordes"
  • BERG Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5
  • STRAVINSKY Le sacre du printemps (version for two pianos)

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes, including one intermission
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The Risør Chamber Music Festival opens its residency with a piece of Carnegie Hall history. The first performance of Bartók’s 1940 Contrasts created a sensation in this Hall when Benny Goodman, Joseph Szigeti, and the composer himself performed it. Another piece that created a sensation at its premiere—it actually caused riots—was Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, heard here in the composer’s rarely performed two-piano version.
Debussy Cello Sonata, L 135 (III. Animé)
Matt Haimovitz, Cello / Philippe Cassard, Piano
Deutsche Grammophon
Mozart Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A major, K 581 (IV. Allegretto con Variazioni)
Martin Fröst, Clarinet / Vertavo String Quartet 
Bis
Sunday, Dec 19, 2010 | 7:30 PM
Ensemble ACJW
Featuring musicians of The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Barbara Hannigan, Soprano
  • Christian Tetzlaff, Violin
  • Ensemble ACJW
    Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor

Program

  • RAMEAU Suite from Les Boréades
  • LIGETI Violin Concerto
  • LIGETI Mysteries of the Macabre
  • R. STRAUSS Metamorphosen: A Study for 23 Strings

  • Perspectives:     Christian Tetzlaff
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This program is a great way to get to know this exciting group of young professional musicians, fellows and alumni of Carnegie Hall’s Academy program. Perspectives artist Tetzlaff and soprano Hannigan each share the stage with the ensemble in music by Ligeti. Rameau and Strauss frame these 20th-century showpieces, all led by the world-renowned Rattle.
Ligeti Violin Concerto (1992): (I. Praeludium: Vivacissimo luminoso - Attacca)
Saschko Gawriloff, Violin / Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Deutsche Grammophon
R. Strauss Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings
Member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra /Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
EMI Classics Special Import
Sunday, Apr 10, 2011 | 7:30 PM
Tetzlaff Quartet
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Tetzlaff Quartet
    ·· Christian Tetzlaff, Violin
    ·· Elisabeth Kufferath, Violin
    ·· Hanna Weinmeister, Viola
    ·· Tanja Tetzlaff, Cello

Program

  • HAYDN String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3
  • MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13, "Ist es wahr?"
  • SCHOENBERG String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 7

  • Perspectives:     Christian Tetzlaff
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“They produce a dazzling palette of sounds, roaring like a symphony or whispering at near-inaudibility,” raves The Washington Post. The color and variety of this group, which includes Perspectives artist Christian Tetlzaff, will be on full display in this program, which runs from the Classical-era clarity of Haydn to the radiant luminescence of the work that made Schoenberg’s name in fin-de-siècle Vienna.
Haydn String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3 (III. Poco Adagio)
Amsterdam String Quartet
Channel Classics

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