Atout in the MuTh: Große Romantik - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Atout in the MuTh: Große Romantik
Orchestral splendor and chamber music finesse at the same time: Quintets, sextets and octets are the passion of the Austrian ensemble Atout, founded in 2010 by Roland Herret, violinist of the Adamas Quartet. In his debut at MuTh, Atout presents two youthful and two mature works of Romanticism - an emotional and sonorous music experience!
It all begins with the famous overture from Richard Strauss' last opera "Capriccio", a simple string sextet whose harmonies spread out in comfort. In the final phase of the Second World War, the nearly 80-year-old Strauss is committed to the Viennese Classicism and thus to a doomed culture.
With Veronika Trisko on the piano, Atout interprets the Piano Quintet in C Minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams, who created a prophetic composition at the age of 30 in 1903.
Dmitry Shostakovich is 18 years old when he composes two movements for string octet. The first piece, a prelude, is a kind of commemorative composition for his poet friend Kurtschawow, who died of typhus. In the second piece mocking glissandos, extended tremolos and sharp dissonances transform a seemingly happy bustle into a grotesque distorted image.
The highlight of the evening is the concerto for string octet, Max Bruch's final composition. Born only four years earlier than Shostakovich's op. 11, it seems to originate from a completely different world and represents a touching confession of a highly romantic musical language.
Program:
Richard Strauss: string sextet from "Capriccio"
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Piano quintet in C minor
Dmitri Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Octet op. 11
Max Bruch: Concerto for string octet in B flat major, op. Posth.
Subject to change.
It all begins with the famous overture from Richard Strauss' last opera "Capriccio", a simple string sextet whose harmonies spread out in comfort. In the final phase of the Second World War, the nearly 80-year-old Strauss is committed to the Viennese Classicism and thus to a doomed culture.
With Veronika Trisko on the piano, Atout interprets the Piano Quintet in C Minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams, who created a prophetic composition at the age of 30 in 1903.
Dmitry Shostakovich is 18 years old when he composes two movements for string octet. The first piece, a prelude, is a kind of commemorative composition for his poet friend Kurtschawow, who died of typhus. In the second piece mocking glissandos, extended tremolos and sharp dissonances transform a seemingly happy bustle into a grotesque distorted image.
The highlight of the evening is the concerto for string octet, Max Bruch's final composition. Born only four years earlier than Shostakovich's op. 11, it seems to originate from a completely different world and represents a touching confession of a highly romantic musical language.
Program:
Richard Strauss: string sextet from "Capriccio"
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Piano quintet in C minor
Dmitri Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Octet op. 11
Max Bruch: Concerto for string octet in B flat major, op. Posth.
Subject to change.
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