FreundschaftsSpiele – because music connects souls!
Our new concert series, FreundschaftsSpiele, invites you to discover music as a deeply unifying experience. Six outstanding artists from the Kronberg Academy bring their musical friends to the Casals Forum to create four weekends filled with joyful play and closeness - entirely shaped by their own ideas and moods. Each concert weekend becomes a "mini-festival," where humanity and music meet in a unique atmosphere. The boundaries between stage and audience blur as the artists present personal works, inviting the audience to share in their friendship and passion for music. Students from the Kronberg Academy are also involved, bringing fresh energy to these extraordinary weekends.
TABEA ZIMMERMANN & FRIENDS I
Participants
- Tabea Zimmermann viola
- Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
- Thomas Hoppe piano
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BWV 1048
Thomas Demenga (*1954)
‘Duo? o, Du...’ for viola and violoncello
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Trio in A minor for piano, clarinet (viola) and violoncello op. 114
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Symphony No. 6 in F major op. 68 ‘Pastorale’
(Arr. G. Fischer for string sextet, ca. 1810)
Subject to change.
TABEA ZIMMERMANN & FRIENDS II
Participants
- Tabea Zimmermann viola
- Adam Walker flute
- Agnès Clément harp
Programme
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
‘Syrinx’ for flute solo L 129
Sonata in F major for flute, viola and harp L 145
Arnold Bax (1883–1953)
Elegiac Trio, GP 178
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Lachrymae op. 48
Sofia Gubaidulina (*1931)
‘Garden of Joys and Sorrows’ for flute, viola, harp and narrator (ad lib.)
Subject to change.
TABEA ZIMMERMANN & FRIENDS III
Participants
- Tabea Zimmermann viola
- Thomas Hoppe piano
Programme
Documentary film ‘Dmitri Shostakovich. The Viola Sonata’ (1981, OmU)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Sonata in C major for viola and piano op. 147
Subject to change.
JANINE JANSEN & FRIENDS I
Participants
- Janine Jansen violin
- Denis Kozukhin piano
Programme
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969)
Quartet for four violins
Further works to be announced.
Subject to change.