Chamber Concert

Programme

Camille Saint-Saëns
Fantasy for Harp and Violin, op. 124

Guillaume Connesson
String Quartet

Claude Debussy
"Danse sacrée et danse profane"

Jacques Ibert
Deux Interludes for Flute, Violin and Harp

Jean Cras
Quintet for Flute, Harp and Strings

Magdalena Hoffmann, Harp

Ivanna Ternay, Flute

Korbinian Altenberger, Violin

Jehye Lee, Violin

Christiane Hörr-Kalmer, Viola

Hanno Simons, Cello

More information on how to buy tickets for the concert in Tutzing can be found on the organizer’s website: Evangelische Akademie Tutzing

About the programme

One instrument crops up with striking frequency in French music: the harp. Magdalena Hoffmann, in Debussy’s Danse sacrée et danse profane, invokes this special Debussyan inflection on her instrument, joined by a string quartet. She also creates a close but delicate exchange with the violin in Camille Saint-Saëns’s Fantaisie. But no less essential to the special French sound is the flute: when it enters an intimate dialogue with the viola in Ibert’s Interludes, the conversation takes place against the undulating ground of a harp. Wave-like arpeggios for the harp are also heard in Quintet for Harp, Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello by the composer and admiral Jean Cras, a work perhaps inspired by his long journeys at sea. The 20^th-century music of Cras, Debussy and Ibert receives an exciting contemporary counterpart in Guillaume Connesson’s String Quartet, composed in 2008.