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Chamber Sessions II

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Thursday, Dec 2, 2010 | 7:30 PM
Risør Chamber Music Festival
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Henning Kraggerud, Violin
  • Lars Anders Tomter, Viola
  • Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano
  • Maria Angelika Carlsen, Violin
  • Martin Fröst, Clarinet
  • Risør Festival Strings
  • Torleif Thedéen, Cello

Program

  • DEBUSSY Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor
  • ROLF WALLIN Under City Skin (US Premiere)
  • BENT SØRENSEN Schattenlinie (US Premiere)
  • MOZART Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, K. 581

  • Program is approximately 2 hours, including one intermission
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When Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times visited Risør in 2005, he was struck at how the festival founders, Andsnes and Tomter, created provocative programs that brought together music from the past and present. On this concert, the Risør players highlight recent pieces by two leading Scandinavian composers, and combine them with Debussy’s musical nod to the French Baroque and one of Mozart’s last works.
Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) (version for piano 4 hands): Part II: Sacrificial Dance
Peter Hill and Benjamin Frith, Pianos
Naxos
Tuesday, Mar 8, 2011 | 7:30 PM
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • St. Lawrence String Quartet
    ·· Geoff Nuttall, Violin
    ·· Scott St. John, Violin
    ·· Lesley Robertson, Viola
    ·· Christopher Costanza, Cello

Program

  • HAYDN String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4
  • JOHN ADAMS String Quartet
  • SCHUBERT String Quartet in G Major, D. 887
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The St. Lawrence String Quartet has never strayed from its guiding motto to “play every concert like it’s your last.” It’s a take-no-prisoners attitude that has energized audiences the world over, and on this concert they perform Haydn, Schubert, and John Adams.
Schubert String Quartet No. 15 In G Major, Op. 161, D 887 (I. Allegro Molto Moderato)
Melos Quartett
Deutsche Grammophon
Sunday, May 1, 2011 | 7:30 PM
Christian Tetzlaff
Antje Weithaas
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Antje Weithaas, Violin
  • Christian Tetzlaff, Violin

Program

  • BARTÓK Violin Duos, BB 104
    ·· Transylvanian Dance, No. 44
    ·· Fairy Tale, No. 19
    ·· Burlesque, No. 16
    ·· Sorrow, No. 28
    ·· Pizzicato, No. 43
    ·· Bagpipes, No. 36
    ·· New Year’s Greeting I, No. 21
    ·· Arabian Song, No. 42
  • LECLAIR Sonata in D Major, Op. 3, No. 6
  • BÉRIOT Duo Concertant in G Minor, Op. 57, No. 1
  • YSAŸE Sonata for Two Violins in A Minor
  • BARTÓK Violin Duos, BB 104
    ·· Harvest Song, No. 33
    ·· Serbian Dance, No. 39
    ·· Song, No. 20
    ·· Wedding Song, No. 23
    ·· Mosquito Dance, No. 22
    ·· Romanian Dance, No. 40

  • Perspectives:     Christian Tetzlaff
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On their own, each of these violinists is exemplary. Together, they’re a one-two knockout punch of virtuosity and style. Tetzlaff and Weithaas play music by composers who know how to bring all the beauty and fire out of the violin, from Bartók to Ysaÿe. It’s just two violins, and it promises to be spectacular.
Bartók 44 Duos for Two Violins
András Keller, Violin; Jaós Pilz, Violin
ECM

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