Opening concert - Alla Zingarese
vrijdag 28 juli 2023
19:00-20:30
Van der Mandelezaal
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The festival theme for this summer is 'On a journey'. The Opening Concert is therefore inspired by Roma, originally a nomadic people. Music is very important to these travelers and especially in violin playing they experience the atmosphere of freedom and improvisation. Brahms based the finale of his iconic quartet on the swirling Roma motif with inspiring cadenzas for piano and violin. And Haydn unfolded the Roma spirit in the last part of the G Major trio like a swirling Rondo all'Ongarese. Between these two works we hear the theme from the 1998 film The Red Violin, which tells a mysterious story about a violin that has been played by famous violinists over the centuries and at one point also by Roma.
Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) Pianotrio Hob.XV/25, nr.39 in G Major (1795)
Nino Gvetadze, piano
Frederieke Saeijs, violin
Harriet Krijgh, cello
John Corigliano (1938) Red violin caprices (1999) (arr. for violin, voice and cello by Gareth Lubbe)
Gareth Lubbe, violin
Harriet Krijgh, cello
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Piano Quartet No. 1 op.25 in G minor (1861)
Candida Thompson, violin
Gareth Lubbe, viola
Harriet Krijgh, cello
Nino Gvetadze, piano
Ticket price: € 36 including after concert drink
