Alexei Lubimov and Keller Quartet - A program of the Budapest Spring Festival
19:30
Concert Hall
Gustav Mahler: Piano Quartet
Alban Berg: Wozzeck-Fragmente (arr: Alexei Grotz for piano and string quintet)
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major (Trout Quintet), D 667
Alexei Lubimov – piano Keller Quartet Vilmos Búza - double bass
The common denominator in the program of this special concert is Vienna, the city playing a definitive role in Europe’s music since the middle of the 18th century. This time we approach it not from the side of the First Viennese School, but by way of brilliant composers of subsequent epochs, preceding their own eras by far.
The legeandary Trout Quintet was composed by a 22 years old Schubert; it was not published, however, until 1829, a year after his death. The artistry of Mahler as a composer, who wrote the Piano Quartet as a student of the Vienna Conservatory at the age of 16, was recognized in its depth really from the 20th century; composers of the Second Viennese School, like Webern, Schönberg or Alban Berg, regarded Mahler as a reference point to their move from progressive tonalism to atonality.
The main opus of the latter, Wocczek, which is regarded as a milestone in the history of the opera, was premièred after 137 (!) rehearsals in 1925, four years after it was composed. On the request of Alexei Lubimov, in the summer of 2010 Alexei Grotz wrote arrangements for string quartet, piano and double bass using material from the most important episodes, instrumental transitions and intermezzi of the opera. The three fragments show a progression of musical tensions on various levels, corresponding to the three acts of the opera.
Tickets are available for 2000 HUF in the box offices of the Palace of Arts, at the BMC, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket and online at JEGY.HU
Alexei Lubimov – piano Keller Quartet Vilmos Búza - double bass
The common denominator in the program of this special concert is Vienna, the city playing a definitive role in Europe’s music since the middle of the 18th century. This time we approach it not from the side of the First Viennese School, but by way of brilliant composers of subsequent epochs, preceding their own eras by far.
The legeandary Trout Quintet was composed by a 22 years old Schubert; it was not published, however, until 1829, a year after his death. The artistry of Mahler as a composer, who wrote the Piano Quartet as a student of the Vienna Conservatory at the age of 16, was recognized in its depth really from the 20th century; composers of the Second Viennese School, like Webern, Schönberg or Alban Berg, regarded Mahler as a reference point to their move from progressive tonalism to atonality.
The main opus of the latter, Wocczek, which is regarded as a milestone in the history of the opera, was premièred after 137 (!) rehearsals in 1925, four years after it was composed. On the request of Alexei Lubimov, in the summer of 2010 Alexei Grotz wrote arrangements for string quartet, piano and double bass using material from the most important episodes, instrumental transitions and intermezzi of the opera. The three fragments show a progression of musical tensions on various levels, corresponding to the three acts of the opera.
Tickets are available for 2000 HUF in the box offices of the Palace of Arts, at the BMC, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket and online at JEGY.HU