NOSPR in Chamber Mode / Berg & Strauss (postponed)

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NOSPR Chamber ensembles

Wednesday

22.02.202319:30

Chamber Hall

Seats

Conductor

Lawrence Foster

Performers

Rafał Zambrzycki – violin

Tymoteusz Bies – piano

Łukasz Zimnik – flute

Ryszard Sojka – flute

Maksymilian Lipień – oboe

Piotr Pyc – cor anglais

Aleksander Tesarczyk – clarinet

Bartosz Pacan – clarinet

Maciej Niewiara – clarinet

Krzysztof Fiedukiewicz – bassoon

Marek Barański – bassoon

Krzysztof Tomczyk – French horn

Paweł Cal – French horn

Piotr Nowak – trumpet

Tomasz Hajda – trombone

Program

Alban Berg

Chamber Concerto for piano and violin with 13 wind instruments, Op. 8

Johann Strauss II

'Kaiser-Walzer', Op. 437 (arr. for chamber ensemble: Arnold Schönberg)

'Schatz-Walzer', Op. 418 (arr. for chamber ensemble: Anton Webern)

New date of the concert: 25 June 2023. Tickets remain valid.

Viennese classics come in threes. In the twentieth century, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven were succeeded by the revolutionary innovator expressionist Arnold Schönberg and his two students, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. It is mainly to the last of them that all three owe a reputation of cold and unapproachable – after all, his fellow’s Chamber Concerto for piano and violin with 13 wind instruments is steaming with emotion!
The gentlemen were pillars of a closed Society for Private Musical Performances, which associated outstanding musicians and composers. In light of the raging inflation which came after the First World War, a need arose, however, to collect money for further activity. That was how the delightful and sophisticated chamber arrangements of Johann Strauss’ (son) waltzes – a less known area of modernist classics’ activity – came to be.

[Adam Suprynowicz, translated by Mikołaj Witkowski]

Duration of the concert: approx. 60 minutes