NOSPR in Chamber Mode / Grieg & Mussorgsky

NOSPR Chamber ensembles
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Thursday

28.04.202219:30

Chamber Hall

Seats

Performers

Karolina Stalmachowska – oboe

Bartosz Pacan – clarinet

bass clarinet

Cezary Rembisz – bassoon

Bartłomiej Duś – soprano, alto and tenor saxophones

Magdalena Duś – piano

Agnieszka Nowok-Zych – compere

Program

Edvard Grieg

From Holberg's Time. Suite in Olden Style, Op.40 (arr. for wind instruments and piano: David Walter)

Modest Mussorgsky

Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. for wind instruments and piano: David Walter)

Ludwig Holberg was originally Norwegian. However, it was as the father of Danish theatre and the literary Danish language that he found fame. An Enlightenment luminary, he rose to prominence during his time as professor of the University of Copenhagen, when he was co-creator of the repertoire of the capital’s Lille Grønnegade Theatre. Grieg’s From Holberg’s Time suite was composed in 1884, on the 200th anniversary of the playwright’s birth, styled on the structure of a baroque suite. Mussorgsky’s series of piano miniatures was born ten years before out of the composer’s experience of an exhibition of paintings by the prematurely deceased Viktor Hartmann. Grieg attempted to recreate Holberg’s era with the language of sounds, while Mussorgsky attempted to use the same to recreate images previously painted on paper and canvas. Today, both compositions are going to be interpreted in yet another, separate manner, by a wind ensemble accompanied by a piano.

Duration of the concert: approx. 65 minutes