Viktor Ullmann, Prag 1924 (c) Arnold Schönberg Center Wien

 

Friday, 11.3.2022, 8.00 p.m.
Musikverein, Metallener Saal

 

Numerous artists were interned in the concentration camp Theresienstadt, Terezín in Czech. Until 1944, they composed and performed here, wrote poetry, rehearsed and performed. Until October 16. On that day, the Jewish cultural elite of Europe was deported from Theresienstadt to Ausschwitz and murdered. In this so-called artists' transport were composers Hans Krása, Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas, conductor Rafael Schächter, writer Peter Kien and many others. All the works in this program were composed in Terezín.

Artel Quartet:

Benjamin Herzl, violin
Jevgēnijs Čepoveckis, violin
Liliya Nigamedzyanova, viola
Melchior Saux, cello

Selini Quartet:

Nadia Kalmykova, violin
Ljuba Kalmykova, violin
Loredana Apetrei, viola
Loukia Loulaki, cello

A cooperation with the  Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien

 

Thursday, 28.04.2022, 8.00 p.m.
Musikverein, Metallener Saal
 

Outstanding students and young graduates of the mdw, all on the verge of promising careers, present a varied program. The clarinetist Paul Moosbrugger, the violinist Yoanna Ruseva, the cellist Mislav Brajković and the flutist Temo Kharshiladze will be heard with their musical partners at the piano.

Eva Teimel will be the moderator.

A cooperation with the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien

 

 

Taekyung Kim(c)privat, Lara Kusztrich(c)Julia Wesely, Marilies Guschlbauer(c)Shirley Suarez, Javus Quartett(c)privat, Guillaume Vincent(c)Andrej Grilc
 

Monday 16.5.2022, 8.00 p.m.
Musikverein, Gläserner Saal

In music, an organ point is a long sustained or rhythmically repeated tone over which other voices move freely in harmony. The works performed here by J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Hans Pfitzner and Pēteris Vasks show how differently this compositional technique has been implemented throughout the musical epochs.

Marilies Guschlbauer, cello

Taekyung Kim, piano

Lara Kusztrich, violin

Guillaume Vincent, piano

Javus Quartet:

Marie-Therese Schwöllinger, violin
Alexandra Moser, violin
Anuschka Cidlinsky, viola
Oscar Hagen, cello

A Cooperation with the  Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien

 

 

Heinz Holliger (c) Priska Ketterer

 

Tuesday 31.5.2022, 8.00 p.m.
Musikverein, Metallener Saal

 

Heinz Holliger already refers in the "title" to the central note "b" of his wind quintet. This tone is the starting point for the further musical development of the work. Holliger's teacher Pierre Boulez composed his 1st piano sonata in 1946. Instead of a single tone, it is based on four different musical figures. Sequenza VII was originally written for the oboist Heinz Holliger. The H of his first and last name inspired Luciano Berio to structure this work around the bowed b as the central note. Ottorino Respighi's Sonata for Violin and Piano fits into the basic idea of the program with its key of B minor. The 4th movement is a passacaglia inspired by the last movement of Brahms' 4th Symphony.

Webern Winds:

Riko Sakamoto, flute
Sebastian Breit, oboe
Ayaka Matsudomi, clarinet
Davide De Ferrari, horn
Johanna Mayr, bassoon

Jan Satler, piano

Ferenc Takács, saxopohone

Belle Ting, violin

Wenting Shi, piano

A cooperation with the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna