Old and New Worlds: Music by Brahms, Mahler and Chaminade at All Saints Church, London on Sunday 4th November 2018

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Old and New Worlds

Music by Brahms, Mahler and Chaminade

Part of the Blackheath International Chamber Music Festival 2018

Add to my Calendar 04-11-2018 18:00 04-11-2018 20:00 36 Old and New Worlds Close contemporaries, Gustav Mahler and and Cécile Chaminade had somewhat different careers as composers. Mahler composed little chamber music – the one movement of a piano quartet featured in this concert is his only surviving purely instrumental chamber work – but focussed mainly on very large-scale orchestral works, whilst Chaminade wrote a vast number of works in a range of smaller forms; both, however, furthered the song repertoire of their time. An international outlook led both Mahler and Chaminade to cross the Atlantic to make their debut performances – as conductor and pianist, respectively – in the United States in 1908, to tremendous acclaim. One of the most outstanding composers of the preceding generation, closely linked with Robert and Clara Schumann (her Piano Trio is featured in Saturday’s concert) and their circle, Johannes Brahms made immensely significant contributions to the chamber music repertoire, one of the most important of which is his Piano Quintet. As a composer whose works looked both backward and forward, Brahms bridged generations of musical experience. All Saints Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

All Saints Church
All Saints Drive
Blackheath
London
SE3 0TY
England

Sunday 4th November 2018
6:00 PM

Programme

Gustav Mahler – Piano Quartet in A minor
Cécile Chaminade – Concertino pour Flute, Op.107
~ Interval ~
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34

Performers

Lana Trotovsek – violin
Boris Bizjak – flute
Yuka Matsumoto – violin
Tetsuumi Nagata – viola
Sebastien Hurtaud – Cello
Simon Lane – piano

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Programme Note

Close contemporaries, Gustav Mahler and and Cécile Chaminade had somewhat different careers as composers. Mahler composed little chamber music – the one movement of a piano quartet featured in this concert is his only surviving purely instrumental chamber work – but focussed mainly on very large-scale orchestral works, whilst Chaminade wrote a vast number of works in a range of smaller forms; both, however, furthered the song repertoire of their time. An international outlook led both Mahler and Chaminade to cross the Atlantic to make their debut performances – as conductor and pianist, respectively – in the United States in 1908, to tremendous acclaim. One of the most outstanding composers of the preceding generation, closely linked with Robert and Clara Schumann (her Piano Trio is featured in Saturday’s concert) and their circle, Johannes Brahms made immensely significant contributions to the chamber music repertoire, one of the most important of which is his Piano Quintet. As a composer whose works looked both backward and forward, Brahms bridged generations of musical experience.

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