The second project of my scholarship takes place in the Brahms Museum Mürzzuschlag. We are grateful that we can play the beautiful Brahms’ Streicher Hammerklavier, on which he played his one and only recording.
- L.v.Beethoven
Eroica Symphony in the chamber music version for piano, violin, flute and cello of J. N. Hummel
Simone Ori – Hammerkalvier, Santiago Medina – violin, Giulia Barbini – flute, Keiko Gomi – cello perform on period instruments.
Concert:
27.02.2011, 6pm – Brahms Museum Mürzzuschlag
A very special thank you to Ronald Fuchs and the Brahms Museum for supporting this project.
The third of Wiener Akademie’s concerts dedicated to Liszt’s orchestral music performed on period instruments.
- Franz Liszt
Les Préludes
Orpheus
Huldigungs Marsch
Ce qu’on entend sur la montagne
Concert and recording:
30. and 31.01.2011 – Raiding
In 2010 I was awarded a scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Culture for three chamber music projects on period instruments.
The first Project happened from the 10th to the 18th of January and it took place in our new apartment in the Pasqualati Haus, the building where Beethoven lived eight years. We have had the luck of having a beautiful fortepiano in the apartment and of playing two great pieces among good friends but the biggest surprise was the joy we found in playing a real house concert. Somehow, a house concert on these old instruments brings the music back to a dimension that is nowadays completely lost. In a world where everybody fights to be louder, this was a wonderfully intimate comunication between musicians and listeners.
Players and intruments:
Simone Ori: fortepiano – copy of a Johann Schantz built in 1989 by Alfred Watzek and very generously lent to us and carried through a very, very narrow staircase by Georg Watzek.
Giulia Barbini: flute – original early 19th Century flute built by Johann Tobias Uhlmann (probably from the 1830s), 12 keys. Uhlmann was not only a wind instrument maker but also oboist of the Thater an der Wien; his son learnt in his workshop and became the father of the Vienna horn.
Robert Percival: bassoon – Cuvillier, made in France probably around 1810, 9 keys
Photos of the house concert at Pasqualati Haus.
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Spira Mirabilis gets a trombone section and plays Schumann’s first Symphony. Formigine’s Polisportiva will be overfilled with musicians.
- Robert Schumann
Symphonie n. 1 in B-flat Major, op. 38 “Spring”
Concerts:
31.10.2010 – Polisportiva, Formigine
02.12.2010 – Teatro Olimpico, Roma
03.12.2010 – Auditorium del Policlinico Gemelli, Roma
05.12.2010 – Teatro Verdi, Pisa
07.12.2010 – Teatro comunale, Modena
The second of Wiener Akademie’s concerts dedicated to Liszt’s orchestral music performed on period instruments.
- Franz Liszt
Dante Symphonie
Concert and recording:
23.10.2010 – Raiding
Philippe Herreweghe, Andreas Steier and Orchestre des Champs-Elysées on tour with Mozart’s Symphony 38, Piano Concerto n. 25 and Haydn’s “La Poule”.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony n° 38 Prague
Piano concerto n° 25, K 503
- Joseph Haydn
Symphony n° 83 The Hen
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Hammerklavier: Andreas Steier
Concerts:
01.10.2010 – Poitiers, TAP
02.10.2010 – Antwerpen, De Singel
05.10.2010 – Köln, Philharmonie
06.10.2010 – Brugge, Concertgebow
09.10.2010 – Lisboa, Gulbenkian Foundation
From September 1st to 10th, Spira Mirabilis will have a residence at the Musikfest Bremen as Bremer Musikfest-Förderpreis Winner 2009. The concerts will be:
- Johannes Brahms
Serenade n.1, op.11
03.09.2010, Bremen BLG-Forum Überseestadt 9pm.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony n.8 in F-Major, op. 93
08.09.2010 – Bremen, Schloss Oldenburg, Festsaal 8pm.
The festival Accademia delle Crete Senesi was founded on the initiative of some musicians of the “Orchestre des Champs Elysées”. As many of their colleagues these musicians give concerts all across Europe but mostly in big halls for an audience of more than two thousand people. However, nothing replaces the cosiness of an intimate location full of atmosphere.
The concerts of the Accademia delle Crete take place in small but marvellous churches, chosen because of their adequate acoustics for the repertoire on the program. The “Crete Senesi” offers splendid locations for the audience and is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and best kept regions in Europe.
This year the Festival takes place from the 1st to the 6th of August and the full program can be found here.
The Orchestra dell’Accademia plays under Catherine Puig and Philippe Herreweghe.
Concerts:
02.08.2010, 8pm, Chiesa di San Francesco – Asciano
04.08.2010, 12am, Chiesa di San Francesco – Asciano
05.08.2010, 8pm, Chiesa di San Francesco – Asciano
- Johannes Brahms
Serenade n.1, op.11
Open reharsal:
03.07.2010, Vignola (Modena), Chiesa dei Frati, 7pm
Concerts:
08.07.2010, Passo di Lavazé for “I suoni delle Dolomiti”, 2pm
09.07.2010, Formigine (Modena), 9pm
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin concerto in D major, op. 61
- Franz Schubert
Symphony no. 7 Unfinished in B minor, D 759
- Marice Ravel
Ma mère l’oye
Orchestra Academy Ossiach
Rémy Ballot – conductor
Rainer Honeck – violin
Concerts:
26.06.2010, Alban Berg Saal, Ossiach
27.06.2010, Hotel Kvarner, Opatija (Croatia)