Home Opera the Engegård Quartet and mates have fun the music of Felix and Fanny at their pageant in Oslo

the Engegård Quartet and mates have fun the music of Felix and Fanny at their pageant in Oslo


The Engegård Quartet [whom we heard recently at Conway Hall, see my review] has a practice of holding single-composer mini-festivals in its house city of Oslo in Norway and this yr, the pageant is dedicated to the Mendelssohns, Felix and Fanny. 1-2-3 Mendelssohn takes place at Nynorskens hus in Oslo from 8 to 10 November. The Engegård Quartet can be joined by an array of mates together with the Elias String Quartet, mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland, pianist Ariel Lanyi, movie maker Sheila Hayman, The Norwegian Broadcasting Company’s Boys Choir and Nordberg String Orchestra, for a weekend of occasions specializing in the music of the 2 composers.

The opening live performance options chamber music and lieder, together with Fanny’s masterpiece, Piano Trio in D minor and Felix’s String Quintet No. 1, plus a piano duet model of the well-known Marriage ceremony March. Saturday begins with a restaurant live performance dedicated to songs with out phrases, then within the afternoon it’s the music each wrote in childhood together with a efficiency of one in every of Felix’s early string symphonies carried out by younger folks and each quartets in Felix’s Octet. And youth has it within the night because the boys choir is joined by younger folks from Barratt Due Junior Ensemble with works together with Hear my prayer and the cantata Verleih uns frieden.

Sunday morning sees music by each siblings carried out by younger folks and woven right into a story about Felix and Fanny. There may be a day salon live performance that includes chamber music and songs, then the Norwegian premiere of Sheila Hayman’s movie Fanny: The Different Mendlessohn, and the pageant closes with one other feast of chamber music and music, together with Ariel Lanyi in Felix’s Fantasie in F sharp minor and the occasion concludes with the viewers being invited to affix in Hark the Herald Angels Sing! which has music tailored from Mendelssohn’s Gutenberg Cantata.

Full particulars from the pageant web site.

And looking out additional forward, if you happen to fancy a December journey to Oslo, then the Engegård Quartet is collaborating with actress Gjertrud Jynge and visible artist Marianne Heske for A Shining Darkness at Norwegian Opera. It is a stage adaptation, by Gjertrud Jynge, of Jon Fosse’s novel Septology which is able to characteristic chamber music starting from previous to fashionable and from in style to sacred, and a video portray by visible artist Marianne Heske visually accompanies the efficiency.

Particulars from Norwegian Opera’s web site.

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