Energy and Passion
The ‘Chamber Music Days’ entice you with works from Bach to Shostakovich
Whether in a duo, trio, quartet or quintet: instrumental and vocal students from the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar will soon be showing off their skills in a wide range of different ensembles. To round off the winter semester, the popular ‘Chamber Music Days’ invite you to a total of twelve concerts in various concert halls in Weimar.
The spectrum of works ranges from baroque to classical and romantic to modern. Admission to all concerts is free!
The various chamber music classes at the Music university in Weimar will be providing magical moments. ‘At the end of the winter semester, you can experience the richness of sound in a very special world,’ says the artistic director of the ‘Days of Chamber Music’, Prof. Christian Wilm Müller. ‘Well-known and unjustly neglected works from different eras can be heard. You can experience young musicians full of energy and passion.’
The motto of the opening concert of the ‘Days of Chamber Music’ is ‘Harmony of Strings: from Bach to Shostakovich’. On Saturday, 25 January at 4:00 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus, the audience can look forward to various duos and a string quartet. First, Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonata in D major BWV 1028 for viola da gamba and harpsichord will be heard in a ‘modern’ version with double bass and piano.
This will be followed by violin sonatas by Robert Schumann and César Franck, before the eighth of Dmitri Shostakovich's 15 string quartets is performed. Franz Schubert's ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata for cello and piano provides the sonorous conclusion.
The chamber music days continue with a ‘Dialogue of Tones’ on Sunday, 26 January at 7:30 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. The varied programme includes piano trios by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Dmitri Shostakovich, as well as a violin sonata by Robert Schumann. Carl Nielsen's Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, Op. 43, is a special treat.
The third concert in the series, entitled ‘Colours of Chamber Music’, will take place on Tuesday, 28 January at 4:00 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. The programme features some very special instrumentations: in addition to works for violin and harp, there is a concerto by Richard Strauss in an oboe trio version, as well as works for two pianos by composers ranging from Franz Schubert to Olivier Messiaen. The concert will be rounded off with the melancholy Sonata op. 108 for violin and piano by Johannes Brahms.
The other concerts in the ‘Days of Chamber Music’:
30 January 2025, 7:30 pm, Notenbank
31 January 2025, 7:30 pm, Saal Am Palais
01 February 2025, 4:00 pm, Festsaal Fürstenhaus
02 February 2025, 7:30 pm, Festsaal Fürstenhaus
05 February 2025, 7:30 pm, Saal Am Palais
06 February 2025, 4:00 pm, Forum Seebach
07 February 2025, 4:00 pm, Forum Seebach
07 February 2025, 7:30 pm, Saal Am Palais
08 February 2025, 7:30 pm, Festsaal Fürstenhaus
[20 January 2025]