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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
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ (1797)
Grażyna Bacewicz
Witraż (Stained Glass Window, 1932) — for violin and piano
Kołysanka (Lullaby, 1952) — for violin and piano
Ottorino Respighi
Il tramonto (The Sunset, 1914) — for mezzo-soprano and string quartet, to a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (1912) — for speaking voice, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, cello and piano
𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬
Animato Kwartet
Inga Våga Gaustad violin
Tim Brackman violin
Elisa Karen Tavenier viola
Pieter de Koe cello
Floor le Coultre violin and viola
Ekaterina Levental mezzo-soprano
Rik Kuppen piano
Jelmer de Moed clarinet and bass clarinet
Felicia van den End flute and piccolo
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Paleiskerk, Paleisstraat 8, 2514 JA Den Haag, Nederland, The Hague, Netherlands
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