French Sextets
5th Brunch / Lunch Concert
Andrea Kollé, Flute
Risa Soejima, Oboe
Filipa Nunes, Clarinet
Irene Lopez Del Pozo, Horn
Artan Hürsever, Bassoon
Alexander Boeschoten, Piano
Works by Louise Farrenc and Ludwig Thuille
This season, a wide variety of ensembles consisting of members of the Philharmonia Zurich will also be presenting works of chamber music in our informal, intimate Brunch and Lunch Concerts. Join the musicians in discovering little-known gems as well as unusual arrangements of familiar pieces, and embark on unusual auditory adventures.
Brunch Concerts begin at 11.15 a.m. on Sundays and are followed by brunch in the Restaurant Belcanto. The concert and brunch cost CHF 60, including a welcome glass of champagne served at the Belcanto (students: CHF 52 / children up to the age of 16: CHF 32).
The Lunch Concerts, featuring the same programme, are given the following day at 12 noon, and do not include lunch. Tickets: CHF 20 (students: CHF 18).
Brunch / Lunch Concerts are supported by Evelyn and Herbert Axelrod
Past performances
March 2020
01
Mar11.15
French Sextets
5th Brunch / Lunch Concert, Spiegelsaal
02
Mar12.00
French Sextets
5th Brunch / Lunch Concert, Spiegelsaal
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French Sextets
Abstract
French Sextets
The Brunch/Lunch Concert on March 1st and 2nd is dedicated to romanticism with Louise Farrenc and Ludwig Thuille. Parisian Louise Farrenc (1805-1875), whose «Bläsersextett in c-Moll op. 40» is on the program, has only again been known to the music world for some 20 years, although she was a respected composer and professor of piano at the Paris Conservatoire during her lifetime. Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907), a close friend of Richard Strauss and professor of composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Munich, wrote his «Sextett in B-Dur für Klavier und Bläserquintett op. 6» between 1886-1888. The work is inspired by Johannes Brahms – especially his 2nd Piano Concerto – and, according to Thuille’s biographer Friedrich Munter, possesses «a pronounced sense of beauty», which is expressed «in equal measure in the perfection of form, melody and sound».