Konzert in der Kirche / FRIELINGHAUS ENSEMBLE

Gustav Frielinghaus & Anton Tkacz – violins
Sào Soulez Larivière & Pietro Montemagni – Violas
Oliver Léonard & Mathis Merkle – cellos

String Sextets by Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg and Johannes Brahms: A blossoming bouquet of compositional and artistic possibilities.

PROGRAM:

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)

String sextet from the opera Capriccio (comp. 1941)

Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951)

«Transfigured Night» op. 4 (comp. 1899)

String sextet based on the poem of the same name by Richard Dehmel

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

String Sextet in G major op. 36 (1864/65)

The New Year's Concert with the ensemble led by Hamburg violinist and ECHO Klassik award winner Gustav Frielinghaus has now become a permanent fixture in the Elbphilharmonie's calendar. But concerts with the Frielinghaus Ensemble have also become a tradition in Sent.

Radio Bremen attested to the sextet line-up "romantic fire and a lot of temperament in the playing" and the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: "So these musicians are united by verve and pathos".

Great tonal 'opulence' and a wealth of harmonic diversity can be experienced in the works of the New Year's Concert. This is particularly evident in Arnold Schoenberg's sextet Verklärte Nacht – based on a poem of the same name by Richard Dehmel – in which he pushes the boundaries of tonality by means of a "developing variation" and tells the story of confession, forgiveness and transfiguration musically. Johannes Brahms, on the other hand, combines a classical form with romantic expressiveness in his string sextet, alternating lyrical moments and dramatic intensifications. Both tonal languages are combined in Richard Strauss (Cappriccio) and integrated in retrospect, so that the concert's programme appears like a blossoming bouquet of compositional and artistic possibilities.


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