NOSPR in Chamber Mode / 'A Little Symphony'

NOSPR Chamber ensembles
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Thursday

27.10.202219:30

Chamber Hall

Seats

Performers

Lucyna Fiedukiewicz – violin

Dawid Jadamus – viola

Karolina Nowak-Waloszczyk – cello

Aleksander Mazanek – double bass

Arkadiusz Adamski – clarinet

Paweł Cal – French horn

Krzysztof Fiedukiewicz – bassoon

Agnieszka Nowok-Zych – compere

Program

Franz Schubert

Octet in F major for 2 violins, viola, double bass, clarinet, French horn and bassoon, D. 803

Adagio. Allegro. Più allegro

Adagio

Scherzo. Allegro vivace

Andante. Un poco più mosso. Più lento

Menuetto. Allegretto

Andante molto. Allegro. Andante molto. Allegro molto

The year 1824 is a fascinating time in music. Classicism is slowly gaining romantic features. Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and Symphony No. 9 are premiered, the fifteen-year-old Mendelssohn is writing his first “big” symphony, and Chopin, a year his junior, is experimenting with mazurkas. Franz Schubert devotes himself to chamber pieces, composing the Der Tod und das Mädchen and Rosamunde quartets and the Octet in F major, inspired by Beethoven’s Septet, which enjoyed exceptional popularity over the first few decades of the 19th century.
The name “octet” means a piece for eight instruments. The mixed ensemble proposed by Schubert became, to an extent, “classical” – it was as late as in the 20th century that it would be employed by such composers as Iannis Xenakis and Isang Yun. Such is the power of a masterpiece; a “small symphony”, seducing with the charm of a Viennese serenade, pleasant for performers and listeners alike.

[Adam Suprynowicz, translated by Mikołaj Witkowski]

Duration of the concert: approx. 70 minutes