Chamber Concert
Saturday, 25. February 2023, 8.00 pm
Munich, Max Joseph Saal
Sunday, 26. February 2023, 6.00 pm
Tutzing, Evangelische Akademie
Programme
Robert Schumann
»Fairy Tale Narrations« for clarinet, viola and piano, op. 132
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann for piano four hands, op. 23
György Kurtág
»Hommage à R. Sch.« for clarinet, viola and piano
Béla Bartók
Sonata for 2 pianos and percussion
Bettina Faiss, Clarinet
Benedict Hames, Viola
Lukas Maria Kuen, Piano
Julian Riem, Piano
Guido Marggrander, Percussion
Raymond Curfs, Timpani

Audio on demand
(Online until April 9, 2023)
INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
Three works on this programme place their focus on Robert Schumann. In his Märchenerzählungen (Fairy tales) he chose a combination of instruments already explored in Mozart’s “Kegelstatt” Trio: clarinet, viola and piano. The dark hue of these instruments led him to adopt a romanticised folk inflection. Johannes Brahms chose the last melody that Schumann committed to paper – his ‘final thought’ – as the theme of ten variations for piano four-hands. And Kurtág adopted the scoring of the Märchenerzählungen in order to breathe new life into Schumann’s imaginary characters with gossamer webs of sound. If the piano evolved in the 19th century into a full-voiced instrument resembling a symphony orchestra, Bartók, in his sonata, went one step further: he placed the pianists on a par with the percussionists, creating a thrilling masterpiece of overwhelming vigour.
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