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‘𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐞’A full day and night in music, from the first light of dawn to the dead of night. The Animato Quartet opens the festival with the Sunrise Quartet by Joseph Haydn: above a softly sustained chord, the first violin climbs slowly upwards, like the sun rising over the horizon.
Inga Våga Gaustad and Rik Kuppen let the light fall through coloured glass in Witraż (Stained Glass Window) by Grażyna Bacewicz. Her Kołysanka is a lullaby for nightfall. In Il tramonto by Ottorino Respighi, mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Levental sings the sun down, accompanied by string quartet: two lovers watch the sun go down; the next morning she finds him lifeless beside her. An opera in miniature.
In Pierrot lunaire, written in 1912, Arnold Schoenberg set poems by Albert Giraud to music: a moonstruck clown drinks the moonlight like wine and sails home on a moonbeam. The voice hovers between singing and speaking, while the five musicians switch deftly between eight instruments. A classic that never ceases to fascinate. Ekaterina Levental has shone at Classical NOW! many times before, and Pierrot lunaire is one of her signature pieces.
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞
Sergei Prokofiev
Visions fugitives, Op. 22 (1915–17) — twenty miniatures for piano
György Ligeti
Monument – Selbstportrait – Bewegung (1976) — three pieces for two pianos
Interval
Richard Strauss
Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85 (1940–41) — for string sextet
Arnold Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4 (1899) — for string sextet
Interval
Louis Andriessen
De Staat (The Republic, 1972–76) — version for two pianos by Gerard Bouwhuis and Cees van Zeeland
𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬
Daniel Rowland violin
Yuval Gotlibovich viola
Maja Bogdanović cello
Nicholas Schwartz double bass
Toptalenten van de Davidsbündler Academy violin, viola, cello
Rik Kuppen piano
Antonii Baryshevskyi piano
Ellen Corver piano
Gerard Bouwhuis piano
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Paleiskerk, Paleisstraat 8, 2514 JA Den Haag, Nederland, The Hague, Netherlands
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