Chamber music - „Alla Zingarese!”
Time: 19:00
Location: Gheorghe Dima National Academy of Music, “Cornel Țăranu” Amphitheatre Str. Bucium 2, 400526 Cluj-Napoca
Singers: David Grimal — violin, · Xavier Phillips — cello · Philippe Cassard — piano · Itamar Golan — piano
Program:
Antonin Dvorak — Four Romantic Pieces, op. 75 David Grimal — violin · Itamar Golan — piano
Antonin Dvorak — Trio „Dumky”, op. 90 | David Grimal — viola · Xavier Phillips — vcello· Philippe Cassard — piano
— Intermission / Interval —
Johannes Brahms — Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 | David Grimal — violin · Juan-Miguel Hernández — viola · Xavier Phillips — cello · Itamar Golan — piano
Dvorak — Four Romantic Pieces, op. 75
Composed in 1887, Dvorak's Four Romantic Pieces for violin and piano are true jewels of the chamber music repertoire. Cavatina, Capriccio, Romance and Elegy — each piece is a world unto itself, traversing with grace and sincerity a wide range of emotions: tenderness, playfulness, melancholy, reverie. Dvorak's writing, always rooted in the folk soul and the song of nature, offers four snapshots of disarming purity. A perfect opening to this evening of European chamber music.
Dvorak — Trio ‘Dumky’, op. 90
The Dumky Trio is one of Dvorak's undisputed masterpieces. Its writing, of extreme refinement, carries us into a land of tenderness and poetic reverie, in the warm and diffuse light of Bohemia.
Brahms — Piano Quartet No. 1, op. 25
Alla Zingarese is the name of the finale of Brahms's celebrated Piano Quartet op. 25 — a movement so fascinating that Arnold Schoenberg arranged it for symphony orchestra in 1937, and Georges Balanchine created a ballet based on that arrangement in New York in 1966. This journey through Central Europe culminates in a blazing Gypsy dance that reminds us that music is, above all, a celebration!