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Wednesday 25 November 2020 at 20:00
Mogens Dahl Concert Hall

PROGRAMME:
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828): Winterreise

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THE MUSIC:

There are so few major passages in ‘Winterreise’ that one’s ears pick up when they appear. The first time a modulation to major occurs is unsurprisingly when we are introduced to the girl who ‘spoke of love’ in ‘Gute Nacht’. But even more markedly: The entire fourth stanza of this first song is in major; here, when the wanderer leaves the girl with an engraved ‘good night’ on the door. As if the final goodbye is a redemption.

During Schubert’s legendary song cycle, it becomes increasingly clear this it is not a trivial tale of a young man in love who has been let down by a girl. It is the entire human existence that is at the core of the despair and longing of the wanderer – the eternal stranger.

Wilhelm Müller’s poems depict an inescapable journey towards death, but Schubert clads the frozen winter landscape, where tears freeze to ice, in a music that paradoxically contains extremely vivid aesthetics.

The piano breathes life into the branches of the linden tree, letting it evoke memories of shady summer days in a ghostly manner. And, in a flash, the snow is melted away by tears, allowing the water to flow vividly through the landscape – right down to the town and the house of the beloved. But alas: In the next song, ‘Auf dem Flusse’, the water freezes over again. In ‘Frühlingstraum’, the cock crows dangerously every time the dream of spring becomes too vivid, but the song fades out in an unanswered question: When will I hold my beloved in my arms?

The basic dilemma is expressed in ‘Erstarrung’: There is an image of the beloved in the frozen heart, but if the heart melts, the image will also melt away. In other words, during the last part of the journey towards winter, there is no going back. The post horn sounds in vain and hope dies with the last leaf falling to the ground. However, both are portrayed with vivid musical empathy in which even the tears falling at the graveside of hope is nuanced in the piano’s last shift from minor to major.

Empty piano fifths and a freezing, unresolved conclusion leave us scurrying in the cold: Does the creepy organ-grinder in the last song forebode the meaninglessness of death? Will hope live through the winter?

JOHAN REUTER, baritone

Johan Reuter is one of Denmark’s great international artists. The excellent bass baritone regularly performs at theatres and festivals such as the Royal Opera House in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, the Opera de Bastille in Paris, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and the Salzburger Festspiele.

His great stylistic span means that he is also a regular guest at concert halls such as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Berliner Philharmoniker in Berlin, Royal Albert Hall in London, and Musikverein in Vienna. Johan Reuter has completed countless CD and DVD recordings and he has twice won the Reumert Prize as singer of the year.

Johan Reuter trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen. From 1996 to 2019, he was a regular part of the Royal Theatre’s solo ensemble. Today, he is still affiliated as an Associate artist, while his engagements at the Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and the Metropolitan in New York have gained momentum.

JAN PHILIP SCHULZE, piano

Jan Philip Schulze got off to a quick start on his international career as an award winner at a string of competitions in Italy, Spain and South Africa.

As a lieder accompanist, he has regularly performed concerts with Juliane Banse, Annette Dasch, Rachel Harnisch, Dietrich Henschel, Jonas Kaufmann and Violeta Urmana. He regularly performs in the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Wigmore Hall, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, in Tokyo, at La Scala in Milan as well as at the festivals in Lucerne, Salzburg, Edinburgh, Munich and Schwarzenberg.

Jan Philip Schulze has recorded all of Hans Werner Henze’s works for piano and premiered music by several contemporary artists.

Jan Philip Schulze trained at the Musikhochschule in Munich and at the Tschaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Since 2004, he has been professor of “Liedgestaltung” at the Music Conservatory in Hanover.

10nov20:00Cancelled - The Danish Piano Duo20:00 Entré: Admission: kr. 395,- (fees included)

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Tuesday 10 November 2020 at 20:00

Mogens Dahl Concert Hall

PROGRAMME:

Carl Nielsen: Symphony nr 3, Espansiva
(Arranged for piano 4 hands by Carl Nielsen)

Allegro espansivo

Andante pastorale

Poco allegretto

Finale, Allegro

Søren Nils Eichberg: ’2020’ (PREMIERE)

Carl Nielsen: Aladdin Suite
(Arranged for piano 4 hands by Anthony Weeden)

Oriental Festmarch

Aladdin´s Dream and The Dance of The Morning Fogs

Hindu Dance

Chinese Dance

The Square in Ispahan

The Prisoners Dance

African Dance

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THE MUSIC:

When The Danish Piano Duo was invited to Elb Philharmonie in Hamburg to perform a concert during the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in 2020, the dou found an almost unknown arrangement of Carl Nielsens 3rd symphony at The Royal Library.

The symphony is arranged by the composer himself and has so far only been performed at private occasions by Carl Nielsen and his piano colleague, Henrik Knudsen. The duo has had the symphony rewritten by pianist Per Salo.

The Danish Piano Duo will make a public first performance of the probably most popular symphony by Carl Nielsen at this concert in Mogens Dahl Koncertsal.

The duo will also perform a brand new piece by the german/danish composer Søren Eichberg, `2020´is complicated, so a greeting for Carl Nielsen will accour.

Furthermore Carl Nielsens Aladdin Suite has been arranged for the duo by the english conductor and composer Anthony Weeden. This specific arrangement will also be performed for the very first time at this evenings concert.

Many thanks to Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat as well as Toyota-Fonden for their financial support and to Carl-Nielsen Selskabet for their cooperation in making this concert a reality.

01nov20:00CANCELLED - The Mortality, The Foreboding, The Hope20:00 Entré: Admission: kr. 185,- (fees included)

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Halloween Concert with the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, Toke Møldrup and Jakob Lorentzen

Sunday 1 November at 20:00

Holmen’s Church, Copenhagen

PROGRAMME:

J.S.Bach: Jesu, meine Freude

Alfred Schnittke: Drei Geistliche Gesänge

Silvius Leopold Weiss: From cello suite in G-minor “L´infidèle”:Entrée, Sarabande and Paysanne

Arvo Pärt: Berliner Messe

PERFORMERS:
Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Toke Møldrup, cello
Jakob Lorentzen, organ
Mogens Dahl, Conductor

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THE MUSIC:

One of Bach’s vast and most fascinating motets sets the theme of this Halloween concert: A hope despite the finality of life. ‘Jesu, Meine Freunde’ by Johann Franck personifies this hope put in Jesus and Bach brilliantly weaves Johann Kruger’s choral melody into a work in which the six verses of the psalm are illuminated by words from the Epistle of St Paul to the Romans. The climax is the five-part double fugue of the sixth movement in which Paul assures us that we humans are more than flesh and blood.

The ‘Three Sacred Hymns’ were composed in 1983. The Russian conductor Valery Polyansky had requested an a cappella work for his choir, and though at first Schnittke seemed reluctant, he apparently woke in the middle of the night and wrote down these three pieces, and handed the manuscript to Polyansky the following day. The work was only published posthumously. Certain melodic figures and scale passages bind the three pieces together, as does the harmonic plan. The first piece uses the two choirs antiphonally and in strict canon, one measure apart, the first choir singing in E-flat major, the second choir a minor third lower in C minor; the second piece, a dramatic supplication rising from piano to fortissimo in a single brief arch, is in C minor; while the third piece, the most harmonically varied of the three, is in E-flat major.

Lutist Sylvius Leopold Weiss was born in the same year as Johan Sebastian Bach, and the two personalities knew each other well. Bach’s cello suites are often heard in concerts, but the composers and musicians of Bach’s time were extremely productive, and the quality of the works they wrote was generally high. Weiss, for example, wrote no less than 51 suites for lye. He was a well-known virtuoso of his time, and historians point out that he inspired Bach to write for his instrument – it turned into a total of 5 fantastic lute suits. For the concert, you will be able to hear excerpts from Weiss’ suite “L’infidèle” (the Infidel). In this context, infidelity must be understood in such a way that the musical material in the suite deliberately tries to escape its French origins – here one hears daring dissonances and melodies that play with an almost Arabic-sounding expression.

The Berliner Messe, or Berlin Mass, was commissioned by Deutscher Katholikentag, a festival which is held every other year. In 1990, the festival was held in Berlin. Of course, it had been planned for several years but, the preceding winter, the hated wall dividing the city had unexpectedly fallen. Beyond the religious object of the Berliner Messe, the work has become a strong symbol of the overcoming of division and boundaries in this world and, thus, a beacon of hope in more sense than one.

In connection with a composition, the term ‘mass’ usually signifies a postponement of the five ordinarium parts, the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, usually included in the celebration of the Roman Catholic Mass. However, but Pärt’s mass stands out: In 1990, the festival took place during Pentecost which is why he chose to supplement with three texts that belong exclusively to Pentecost.

05okt20:00Cancelled - Marc-André Hamelin, piano20:00 Entré: Admission: kr. 395,- (fees included)

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THE CONCERT IS UNFORTUNATELY CANCELLED.

WE ARE WORKING ON ANOTHER CONCERT IN THE FUTURE.

Monday 5 October 2020 at 20:00

Mogens Dahl Concert Hall

PROGRAMME:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791): Sonata No 4 in E flat major, K. 282

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 – 1788): Rondo in C minor, Wq 59/4

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827): Sonata No 3 in C major, Opus 2 No 3

Gabriel Faurè (1845 – 1924): Nocturnes 1, 2 and 3, Opus 33

Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937): Gaspard de la nuit

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THE MUSIC:

This is Mozart at his most welcoming meeting us in the fourth of five piano sonatas composed in 1775. This sonata is different from the others because of its slow introductory movement, amongst others. Two elegant minuettes ending in a charming allegro lets Mozart play with the octave interval.

The virtuoso Carl Philip Emanuel – the son of the ‘Bach senior’ – was called ‘Berliner-Bach’ and ‘Hamburger-Bach’ because of his prominent role at the court of Frederik the Great and subsequently as a precentor in Hamburg, where he replaced Telemann.

He was particularly interested in the keyboard instrument and, with the short rondo in C minor, demonstrates a fantastic tour de force of changing moods and unpredictable thematic variations.

It is said that Arthur Rubinstein used the opening of Beethoven’s third piano sonata to test the grand piano before performing. Both the very first trill in parallel thirds and the extremely difficult passage with tremolos in a sixteenth figure could break the fingers of many a skilled pianist. The virtuoso four-movement sonata is dedicated to Haydn.

Fauré was a great admirer of Chopin and composed his famous nocturnes within the familiar setting of Romantic piano music. Nevertheless, these rather dark pieces of music are recognised as some of the most important works of the young Fauré. It takes a great pianistic strength to bring to life Fauré’s piano music which, with repeated listening, opens up as extremely passionate and original music with subtle syncopations and advanced harmonic shifts.

Ravel’s piano suite is inspired by three poems by Aloysius Bertrand. We traverse an amazing – and dangerous – universe populated by enticing water nymphs, death bells for a hung man with spiders crawling on him and, finally, the devil himself crawling in and out of one’s consciousness.

The work is definitely notorious for its extreme difficulty. It is magnificent and deeply fascinating music where one wonders: How is it humanly possible for one musician to realise such an orchestral work on just one set of keys?

MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN

The pianist who brings to life the grand piano programme of the evening has been called the ’emperor of the keys’ and an artist with ‘almost superhuman technical ability’ by the New York Times.

Marc-André Hamelin visits us for the second time and we can promise you a world-class experience when the Canadian sits down at our grand piano.

The Canadian pianist’s concerts and recordings have called for accolades all over the world – amongst others, he has received 11 Grammy Award nominations.

His career started in Montreal and, later on, Philadelphia, although

the list of tours visiting famous festivals and scenes has since covered the whole world. This has led to a significant number of awards. Marc-André Hamelin won the Carnegie Hall competition in 1985, was inducted into Gramophones’ Hall of Fame in 2015 and has been awarded with the lifetime award of the German music critics.

Marc-André Hamelin was born in Montreal and currently resides in Boston, USA.

25maj20:00Event CancelledCANCELLED - Richard Goode, piano20:00 Entré: Admission: DKK 395 / Students DKK 295 (fees included)

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Richard Goode, piano

Monday May 25th 2020, 20:00
Admission: DKK 395 / Students DKK 295 (fees included)

PROGRAMME

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827):
Piano sonata No 30, E major, opus 109
Piano sonata No 31, As major, opus 110

PAUSE

Bagatelles No 6 – 11. opus 119,
Piano sonata No 32, C minor, opus 111

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Richard Goode is internationally recognized as one of the present’s leading interpreters of Beethoven’s piano pieces. He performs on a regular basis in Europe and the US and is a recurring soloist performing with some of the world’s finest orchestras.

The New York-residing pianist has recorded numerous of appraised albums including solo- and chamber music, to lieder and piano recitals. His recording of Beethoven’s piano recitals with The Budapest Festival Orchestra was in 2009 referred to as “a landmark recording” by Financial Times and even nominated for a Grammy. A box set of 10 CD’s containing The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos was also nominated for a Grammy and selected for the “Gramophone Good CD Guide’.

There are numerous awards and appraisals for Goode’s virtuous interpretations of Beethoven – but he is also an acknowledged educator and mentor for the next generation of classical pianists. He teaches on a regular basis in New York and London and occasionally offers masterclasses at festivals and in concert halls in the US and Europe.

If Das wohltemperierte Klavier by Bach is “The Old Testament” of piano music, Beethoven’s piano sonatas is “The New”. Richard Goode has the last three of these masterpieces programmed for this concert – three sonatas which range widely in their expression, but also gathers around the late Beethoven’s most profound and original characteristics. There is an almost unheard level of pianistic skill, just as we experience an interest in the older musical forms as the fugue paired with innovative harmonic thinking.

04maj20:00Event CancelledCANCELLED - The Doric Quartet20:00 Entré: Admission: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 (fees included)

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Alex Redington and Ying Xue, violin – Hélène Clément, Viola – John Myerscough, cello

Monday 4 May 2020 at 20:00
Admission: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 (fees included)

Programme

Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809):
String quartet No 32 in C major,
Opus 33/3 Hob.III:39. ’The Bird’
Allegro moderato
Scherzo & trio
Adagio ma non troppo
Finale: Rondo. Presto

W. A. Mozart (1756 – 1791):
String quartet No 22 in B flat major,
KV 589, Prussian No 2
Allegro
Larghetto
Menuetto
Allegro assai

PAUSE

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827):
String quartet No 13 in B flat major, opus 130
Adagio, ma non troppo – Allegro
Presto
Andante con moto, ma non troppo. Poco scherzoso
Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai
Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo
Große Fuge (opus 133)

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With several spectacular awards and releases on the resume, the Doric Quartet has established itself as one of the most significant quartets of its generation. They are now performing in leading concert halls, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Konzerthaus, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Louvre, Carnegie Hall and Kioi Hall Tokyo. In addition, they regularly perform at the Wigmore Hall.

The quartet was founded in 1998 and has recorded for Chandos Records since 2010. In 2019, they recorded Britten’s collected string quartets and received excellent reviews. Their Haydn recordings have also won great applause – including election of ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Gramophone and ‘Choc du Mois’ in Classica Magazine.

It is as if Haydn’s quartet, nicknamed ‘The Bird’, needs to take a preliminary run-up. Repeated tones and a marked cello bass line quickly establish that we are in C major. But, like a swift bird in the forest, the whole shebang suddenly moves to d minor before sweeping back. Small flicks in the first violin emphasize the ease and playfulness. But notice how the bird-like elements in the middle of the movement evolve into something that certainly doesn’t sound merely bright and happy.

In the final rondo of the finale, there Is plenty of folkloristic fieriness and clog dancing. The quartet ends high up in the blue sky in an ending that is more like a disappearance act than a solid full stop.

Mozart did NOT dedicate his three Prussian quartets to Friedrich Wilhelm II, who himself was an avid amateur cellist. In his notes, Mozart did write that they had been ordered by the king, but there are indications that no payment was ever made for the quartets. In any event, they were published after Mozart’s death without dedication. Paid for by the king in Berlin, or not: Rarely has a cello had such princely a voice in a string quartet.

Beethoven’s string quartet No 13 is performed here in the context of ‘Große Fuge’ (originally written as the 6th and last movement of string quartet No 13, but later published separately). It is great music, In every way, which Beethoven himself reverently referred to as his “dear” quartet. The beautiful melody of the cavatina could bring tears to eyes of Beethoven himself, despite the fact that the composer was completely deaf! Contemporaries regarded the concluding Große Fuge as “Babylonian confusion” and “As incomprehensible as Chinese” but, today, it is widely regarded as Beethoven’s biggest achievement

19apr20:00Event CancelledCANCELLED - Julian Rachlin, violin - Magda Amara, piano20:00 Entré: Admission: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 (fees included)

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Julian Rachlin, violin – Magda Amara, piano

Sunday 19 April 2020 at 20:00
Admission: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 (fees included)

PROGRAMME

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Violinsonate No 1 in G major, opus 78
Vivace ma non troppo
Adagio – Più andante – Adagio
Allegro molto moderato

Johannes Brahms:
Bratschsonate in F minor, opus 120 No 1
Allegro appassionato
Andante un poco adagio
Allegretto grazioso
Vivace

PAUSE

Antonín Dvorák (1841 – 1904):
Vier romantische Stücke, opus 75
Allegro moderato
Allegro maestoso
Allegro appassionato
Larghetto

César Franck (1822 – 1890):
Violinsonate in A major
Allegretto ben moderato
Allegro
Ben moderato: Recitativo-Fantasia
Allegretto poco mosso

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Julian Rachlin’s extremely exciting career has brought him together with the world’s leading conductors and orchestras. He was born in Lithuania and immigrated to Austria in 1978 where he studied with Pinchas Zukerman, amongst others, who has previously visited the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall. Here, he performed as the youngest soloist of the Vienna Philharmonic. Today, he is active on several fronts. On the chamber music scene, he performs with partners such as Martha Argerich, Itamar Golan and Mischa Maisky. In addition, he regularly conducts the most famous symphony orchestras of the world.

Magda Amara is one of the most sought-after chamber musicians in Europe. She has worked with several members of the Vienna Philharmonic as well as musicians such as Andreas Ottensamer, Matthias Bartolomey, Michael Barenboim and Michaela Girardi. She has also regularly performed with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the National Philharmonic in Kiev and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, amongst others.

Brahms’ songs ‘Regenlied’ and ‘Nachklang’ left their impressions in the violin sonata in G major. Often, the sonata is called the ‘Rain Sonata’ for the same reason. Not only does the common melody from the two songs clearly stand out as the main theme of the third movement but consistently punctuated rhythms from Regenlied drip throughout sonata.

The wonderful sonata in f minor is composed for the clarinet and has since been arranged for viola by Brahms himself. Despite a fast and lively final movement, one is left with warm melancholy as the main impression.

The story behind Dvorak’s opus 75 begins with an attempt to write a trio for two violins and a viola – music that a live-in student and amateur musician could play along to. Over and over, this music evolved into these four romantic pieces that exude Brahms’ enthusiasm for writing music of the intimate chamber music genre.

With a calm first movement, César Franck lets the listener believe that everything Is peace and idyll. The explosive second movement and the introverted recitativo-fantasia bring completely different emotions into play and finally build up to a beautiful and quite serene final movement.

05apr20:00Event CancelledCANCELLED - Brahm's: Ein Deutsches Requiem20:00 Entré: Admission: DKK 275 / students 175 (fees included)

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Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Tanja Zapolski, piano
Rikke Sandberg, piano
Mogens Dahl, conductor

Maria Demérus, soloist

David Wijkman, soloist

Palm Sunday, 5 April 2020 at 20:00
Holmen’s Church, Copenhagen
Admission: DKK 275 / students 175 (fees included)

Programme

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897):
Ein Deutsches Requiem, opus 45.
Arranged for soloists, choir and two performers on one piano by Phillip Moll

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As you know, there are three big B’s in the world of composing. Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Of course, every season, these three masters are given significant prominence in our concert programme.

The last B has even been given its very own fixed performance: Brahms’ requiem in Phillip Moll’s edition has become a stable part of Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir’s spring programme.

It is not without reason that this magnificent work has always had a large fan base. It is melodic, warm and elegant; composed by Brahms at the peak of his abilities.

In 2017, Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir was granted permission by Rundfunkchor Berlin to use their new arrangement, written for choir and two performers on one piano. It has also previously been performed in this set-up – including by Brahms himself – but, especially in recent years, there has been a growing interest in exploring the requiem in a sleek, chamber music version where Brahms’ fantastic work on the voices of the choir is given its proper place of prominence.

Ein Deutsches Requiem consists of seven movements, all of which revolve around conveying a comfort to the survivors. Perhaps Brahms composed the work as a way of coping with the grief associated with the deaths of people close to him: His mother died in 1865, when he began the work, and his friend, Robert Schumann, had died a few years before that.

By the same token, Schumann had planned exactly what Brahms now undertook, namely a requiem in the German language. ‘German’ in the title of the work In fact refers to the language and not the German people. Brahms himself has said that he would gladly have called his requiem for ‘Ein menschliches Requiem’ if this had made his intention any clearer.

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem is performed by Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, two Danish pianists, Rikke Sandberg and Tanja Zapolski, and two Swedish soloists, soprano Mette Demérus and baritone David Wijkman.

22mar20:00Event CancelledCANCELLED - BENEDETTI / ELSCHENBROICH / GRYNYUK TRIO20:00 Entré: Admission: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 (fees included)

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NICOLA BENEDETTI, VIOLIN – LEONARD ELSCHENBROICH, CELLO – ALEXEI GRYNYUK, PIANO

Sunday 22 march 2020 at 20:00
Admission: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 (fees included)

PROGRAMME

Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856)
Piano trio No 1 in D minor, opus 63
Mit Energie und Leidenschaft
Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch
Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung
Mit Feuer

Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952):
Fremde Szene III

PAUSE

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897):
Piano trio No 1 in H major, opus 8
Allegro con brio
Scherzo
Adagio
Finale: Allegro

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In the Italian home in a small Scottish town, it was reportedly Abba and Bee Gees that they listened to. Nevertheless, as a very young girl, Nicola Benedetti got her hands on the violin. As early as at age 10, her colossal talent sent her to Yehudi Menuhin’s renowned talent school south of London. Here, Benedetti met the German cellist Leonard Elschenbroich who was also ten years old when he started studying here. The trio’s Ukrainian-born pianist, Alexei Grynyuk, also grew up as an extremely talented prodigy. Grynyuk gave his first public performance as a 6-year-old. Today, all three are established world stars.

You will be met by romance of the highest calibre immediately from the opening tones of the concert. Robert Schumann wrecked his piano hands through the manic training of his fingers’ independent movement (he invented an instrument to force them apart) – but that did not stop him from composing supremely romantic chamber music for piano trio.

The romance is expressed in the insistence of the music on eliciting great emotions. Then there is a whisper, then there is a shout; the melodic material is persistently penetrating and sensual in its constant alternation between light and dark, major and minor, large orchestral and small and intimate. The slow third movement is bursting with trapped pain and sadness. Not even the fiery and triumphant last movement erases the impression of the seeking, romantic soul.

Wolfgang Rihm’s modern classic within the chamber music repertoire of 1980 is full of references to romantic feelings. There are no direct quotes from romantic composers but, in his own words, Rihm wanted to pursue the innermost powers of Schumann’s music, in particular. Violent bi-polar clashes between order and chaos provide a fantastic perspective on the 19th-century quest for new horizons: How would Schumann’s music have sounded if he had lived in the 1980s?

After a brief piano introduction, the cello presents the first theme of Brahms’ large-scale piano trio. Already in the first movement, it is teeming with thematic ideas and moods. The scherzo opens with a thick rocking theme in minor. The movement returns to major and leads to the adagio, which slows one’s heart rate all the way down. Subdued piano chords strike an almost mysterious vibe before the cello’s heat eclipses the serious nature of the movement. The soft piano chords end the movement. The fourth movement returns to minor and gives the work a dramatic ending with syncopated rhythms also emphasizing the seriousness and heaviness of the piano trio.

22mar20:00Event CancelledCANCELLED - Permanent pass - 4 chamber concerts20:00 Entré: Permanent pass for all four concerts: kr. 1200,-( fees included)

13feb20:00Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, vln - Rudolf Buchbinder, piano - CONCERT 320:00 Entré: Entrance: kr. 395,- / students kr. 295,- (fees included)

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THE COMPLETE BEETHOVEN VIOLIN SONATAS
CONCERT 3

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) is the epitome of musical genius – followed and loved by many both back then and now. Mogens Dahl Concert Hall celebrates the genius’s 250th birthday with a unique concert project in which two of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of our time, Nikolaj Znaider and Rudolf Buchbinder perform the ten famous violin sonatas.

Programme:
13 February 2020 Beethoven, violin sonatas Nos. 5, 7 and 10

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

The world’s leading orchestras compete for Znaider: Vienna, Cleveland, Los Angeles Philharmonic and a host of other top ensembles invite him as a returning star soloist. He is regularly on world tour as violinist, but at the same time finds room for a career as a conductor collaborating with the New York, Munich, Chicago and Birmingham symphonies, the French Radio Philharmonic and many more. In September 2020, he will be the new Music Director of the Orchestre national de Lyon.

Despite his very busy schedule, this phenomenal artist has found room in his calendar to play in the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall on several occasions. We are incredibly proud to welcome back one of the world’s leading Beethoven interpreters.

Rudolf Buchbinder

Particularly Rudolf Buchbinder’s exemplary renditions of Beethoven’s works have earned him the reputation of one of the greatest pianists of our time. Among other things, he has performed the 32 piano sonatas all over the world more than 50 times.

It is not only his grasp of Beethoven that has made him one of the legendary pianists of our time. His piano playing exudes enormous authority, the result of a career spanning over more than 60 years. His renditions of classical masterpieces are celebrated worldwide for their intellectual depth and musical freedom.

We are not the only concert hall that has chosen Buchbinder to be at the forefront of the 2020 Beethoven celebration. The Wiener Musikverein has also dedicated its cycle of the five Beethoven piano concertos to Rudolf Buchbinder.

11feb20:00Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, vln - Rudolf Buchbinder, piano - CONCERT 220:00 Entré: Entrance: kr. 395,- / students kr. 295,- (fees included)

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THE COMPLETE BEETHOVEN VIOLIN SONATAS
CONCERT 1

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) is the epitome of musical genius – followed and loved by many both back then and now. Mogens Dahl Concert Hall celebrates the genius’s 250th birthday with a unique concert project in which two of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of our time, Nikolaj Znaider and Rudolf Buchbinder perform the ten famous violin sonatas.

Programme:
11 February 2020 Beethoven, violin sonatas Nos. 4, 6 and 9

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

The world’s leading orchestras compete for Znaider: Vienna, Cleveland, Los Angeles Philharmonic and a host of other top ensembles invite him as a returning star soloist. He is regularly on world tour as violinist, but at the same time finds room for a career as a conductor collaborating with the New York, Munich, Chicago and Birmingham symphonies, the French Radio Philharmonic and many more. In September 2020, he will be the new Music Director of the Orchestre national de Lyon.

Despite his very busy schedule, this phenomenal artist has found room in his calendar to play in the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall on several occasions. We are incredibly proud to welcome back one of the world’s leading Beethoven interpreters.

Rudolf Buchbinder

Particularly Rudolf Buchbinder’s exemplary renditions of Beethoven’s works have earned him the reputation of one of the greatest pianists of our time. Among other things, he has performed the 32 piano sonatas all over the world more than 50 times.

It is not only his grasp of Beethoven that has made him one of the legendary pianists of our time. His piano playing exudes enormous authority, the result of a career spanning over more than 60 years. His renditions of classical masterpieces are celebrated worldwide for their intellectual depth and musical freedom.

We are not the only concert hall that has chosen Buchbinder to be at the forefront of the 2020 Beethoven celebration. The Wiener Musikverein has also dedicated its cycle of the five Beethoven piano concertos to Rudolf Buchbinder.

10feb20:00Partoutcard - Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, vln - Rudolf Buchbinder, piano20:00 Entré: Entrance: kr. 1000,- (fees included)

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THE COMPLETE BEETHOVEN VIOLIN SONATAS
ALL 3 CONCERTS

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) is the epitome of musical genius – followed and loved by many both back then and now. Mogens Dahl Concert Hall celebrates the genius’s 250th birthday with a unique concert project in which two of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of our time, Nikolaj Znaider and Rudolf Buchbinder perform the ten famous violin sonatas.

Programme:
10 February 2020 Beethoven, violin sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 8
11 February 2020 Beethoven, violin sonatas Nos. 4, 6 and 9
13 February 2020 Beethoven, violin sonatas Nos. 5, 7 and 10

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

The world’s leading orchestras compete for Znaider: Vienna, Cleveland, Los Angeles Philharmonic and a host of other top ensembles invite him as a returning star soloist. He is regularly on world tour as violinist, but at the same time finds room for a career as a conductor collaborating with the New York, Munich, Chicago and Birmingham symphonies, the French Radio Philharmonic and many more. In September 2020, he will be the new Music Director of the Orchestre national de Lyon.

Despite his very busy schedule, this phenomenal artist has found room in his calendar to play in the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall on several occasions. We are incredibly proud to welcome back one of the world’s leading Beethoven interpreters.

Rudolf Buchbinder

Particularly Rudolf Buchbinder’s exemplary renditions of Beethoven’s works have earned him the reputation of one of the greatest pianists of our time. Among other things, he has performed the 32 piano sonatas all over the world more than 50 times.

It is not only his grasp of Beethoven that has made him one of the legendary pianists of our time. His piano playing exudes enormous authority, the result of a career spanning over more than 60 years. His renditions of classical masterpieces are celebrated worldwide for their intellectual depth and musical freedom.

We are not the only concert hall that has chosen Buchbinder to be at the forefront of the 2020 Beethoven celebration. The Wiener Musikverein has also dedicated its cycle of the five Beethoven piano concertos to Rudolf Buchbinder.

10feb20:00Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, vln - Rudolf Buchbinder, piano - CONCERT 120:00 Entré: Entrance: kr. 395,- / students kr. 295,- (fees included)

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THE COMPLETE BEETHOVEN VIOLIN SONATAS
CONCERT 1

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) is the epitome of musical genius – followed and loved by many both back then and now. Mogens Dahl Concert Hall celebrates the genius’s 250th birthday with a unique concert project in which two of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of our time, Nikolaj Znaider and Rudolf Buchbinder perform the ten famous violin sonatas.

Programme:
10 February 2020 Beethoven, violin sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 8

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

The world’s leading orchestras compete for Znaider: Vienna, Cleveland, Los Angeles Philharmonic and a host of other top ensembles invite him as a returning star soloist. He is regularly on world tour as violinist, but at the same time finds room for a career as a conductor collaborating with the New York, Munich, Chicago and Birmingham symphonies, the French Radio Philharmonic and many more. In September 2020, he will be the new Music Director of the Orchestre national de Lyon.

Despite his very busy schedule, this phenomenal artist has found room in his calendar to play in the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall on several occasions. We are incredibly proud to welcome back one of the world’s leading Beethoven interpreters.

Rudolf Buchbinder

Particularly Rudolf Buchbinder’s exemplary renditions of Beethoven’s works have earned him the reputation of one of the greatest pianists of our time. Among other things, he has performed the 32 piano sonatas all over the world more than 50 times.

It is not only his grasp of Beethoven that has made him one of the legendary pianists of our time. His piano playing exudes enormous authority, the result of a career spanning over more than 60 years. His renditions of classical masterpieces are celebrated worldwide for their intellectual depth and musical freedom.

We are not the only concert hall that has chosen Buchbinder to be at the forefront of the 2020 Beethoven celebration. The Wiener Musikverein has also dedicated its cycle of the five Beethoven piano concertos to Rudolf Buchbinder.

01feb20:00Prison Poems20:00 Entré: Admission: DKK 185 / students DKK 95 (fees included)

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BE AWARE: NEW TIME 20:00

Mogens Dahl Kammerkor
Maiken Mathisen Schau, flute
David M.A.P. Palmqvist, horn
Karen Lise Mynster, recitation
Mogens Dahl, conductor

Saturday 1 February 2020 at 20:00
Christian’s Church, Copenhagen
Admission: DKK 185 / students DKK 95 (fees included)

Programme

Sven-David Sandström (b. 1942):
LAMENTO IN LONTANO (2018)
solo for horn

Per Gunnar Petersson (b. 1954):
AFTONLAND (1989)
I: Allt er så underligt fjärran i dag
II: Det är om aftonen man bryter upp
III: Engång skall du vara en av dem
IV: Den döda

Lasse Thoresen (NO):
PRISON POEMS, OP. 53 (2016/17)
Solo flute, reciter, choir, sound design
Sound design: Mats Claesson
Text by: Mahvash Sabet and ’Abdu’l-Bahá
Based on Mahvash Sabet’s collection of poem by the same name.
Translated into Danish for the occasion.

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Music in the sign of freedom and hope: Under the theme

INNER & EXTERNAL FREEDOM, Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir takes a dramatic journey into the human mind when it is pushed to the edge due to faith and conviction.

Using the world of poetry as its starting point, the evening offers up a concert programme in which words and music blend into statements of longing, loneliness, existential awakening and hopes for the future.

The evening starts with Sven-David Sandström’s solo for horn, Lamento in Lontano, and is followed by Peter Gunnar Petersson’s dark and soulful suite, Aftonland. The lyrics to the suite are four poems from the Swedish Nobel laureate Pär Lagerkvist’s collection of poems of the same name. Lagerkvist’s existential poems and Petersson’s composition are performed by Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir.

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir continues the evening with a Danish first performance of Lasse Thoresen’s piece Prison Poems. The texts of the composition are taken from the Iranian poet Mahvash Sabet’s collection of poems of the same name.

In 2008, Mahvash Sabet was arrested in her native Iran solely based on the fact that she is a member of the Bahá’í religious minority community. Two years later, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Imprisoned in one of Iran’s toughest prisons, Sabet wrote her poems on napkins and toilet paper. With the help of friends, the poems were smuggled out, edited, translated from Persian and published under the name Prison Poems.

These are powerful poems that reflect on desperation, hope and loneliness and, at the same time, reflect how, despite adversity, a person can grow strong in both faith and spirit – and this particular field of tension has inspired Lasse Thoresen in his composition of the music to Prison Poems.

Actress Karen-Lise Mynster recites the poems of Sabet in a Danish translation.

This concert is arranged in collaboration with NJORD – New Nordic Music Biennale, the publishing house Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag, Danish PEN and Copenhagen Light Festival.

A special thanks to Secretary General of the Danish PEN, Mille Rohde.

07dec19:30Handel's Messiah19:30 Holmens Kirke Entré: Entrance: DKK 275 / students DKK 175 (tax included)

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PROGRAM:
G. F. Händel: The Messiah

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Soprano: Julia Doyle

Alt: Benno Schachtner

Tenor: Krystian Adam

Bass: Gordon Bintner

Mogens Dahl – conductor

FRIDAY THE 6TH OF DECEMBER 2019 AT 7.30 PM
SATURDAY THE 7TH OF DECEMBER 2019 AT 7.30 PM
HOLMENS Kirke, Copenhagen

Year after year, the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir has tightened their grip on their very own version of Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has been an ideal co-player in the international project that offers the audience of Copenhagen an at once modern and loyal version of the oratorio, which to many is the ultimate Christmas music.

In 2019 it will be the 12th time Mogens Dahl conducts a crisp baroque orchestra, international soloist stars, and his own top-trimmed, professional choir, in a full Holmens Kirke.

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It is now the 12th time Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir sing Christmas in with Händel’s most popular choral work – the magnificent oratorio Messiah. This traditional concert in Holmen’s Church has been praised to the heavens by all reviewers, who have fallen in love with Mogens Dahl’s slender and crisp Baroque edition.

★★★★★★
“Mogens Dahl’s outstanding Messiah” wrote Berlingske’s reviewer Søren Schauser, and adorned it with six stars following the performance where the British Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment contributed for the first time in 2016. Politiken was also enthusiastic: “It was simple, beautiful and redeeming,” wrote Thomas Michelsen.

★★★★★★
Danish daily Berlingske 2017

★★★★★★
Danish daily Kristeligt Dagblad 2017

06dec19:30Handel's Messiah19:30 Holmens Kirke Entré: DKK 285 / students DKK 185 including fees

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PROGRAM:
G. F. Händel: The Messiah

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Soprano: Julia Doyle

Alt: Benno Schachtner

Tenor: Krystian Adam

Bass: Gordon Bintner

Mogens Dahl – conductor

FRIDAY THE 6TH OF DECEMBER 2019 AT 7.30 PM
SATURDAY THE 7TH OF DECEMBER 2019 AT 7.30 PM
HOLMENS Kirke, Copenhagen

Year after year, the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir has tightened their grip on their very own version of Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has been an ideal co-player in the international project that offers the audience of Copenhagen an at once modern and loyal version of the oratorio, which to many is the ultimate Christmas music.

In 2019 it will be the 12th time Mogens Dahl conducts a crisp baroque orchestra, international soloist stars, and his own top-trimmed, professional choir, in a full Holmens Kirke.

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It is now the 12th time Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir sing Christmas in with Händel’s most popular choral work – the magnificent oratorio Messiah. This traditional concert in Holmen’s Church has been praised to the heavens by all reviewers, who have fallen in love with Mogens Dahl’s slender and crisp Baroque edition.

★★★★★★
“Mogens Dahl’s outstanding Messiah” wrote Berlingske’s reviewer Søren Schauser, and adorned it with six stars following the performance where the British Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment contributed for the first time in 2016. Politiken was also enthusiastic: “It was simple, beautiful and redeeming,” wrote Thomas Michelsen.

★★★★★★
Danish daily Berlingske 2017

★★★★★★
Danish daily Kristeligt Dagblad 2017

10nov20:00The Emerson String Quartet20:00 Entré: Entrance: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 (tax included)

03nov21:00Halloween Concert The Great Mystery21:00 Entré: Entrance: DKK 250 / students DKK 150 (fees included)

22okt20:00Kit Armstrong, piano20:00 Entré: Entrance: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 (tax included)

07okt20:00CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS: Vilde Frang, Violin & Michail Lifits, Piano20:00 Entré: Entrance: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 (tax included)

24sep20:00Camilla Tilling, Sopran & Paul Rivinius, Piano20:00 Entré: Entrance: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 (tax included)

07sep17:00Book of Prayers– an oratorio from the street17:00 Entré: Entrance: DKK 150 (tax included)

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Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen
Mogens Dahl – conductor

Saturday the 7^thof September 2019 at 5.00 PM
Christians Kirke, Copenhagen

“The street is the house of prayer (oratorium) for protests, and the slogans of the street move into the church in this piece. Book of Prayers is not a traditional oratorio with one single narrative. It is a paraphrase of the genre with a starting point in the word orare – to pray.” This is how Niels Rønsholdt explains the point of his new piece, which is performed for the first time in cooperation with the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir,Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, and the Golden Days Festival.

Niels Rønsholdt is a composer and an artist of sound– trained partly in private by Lasse Laursen and Helmut Oehring and partly at Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium by Karl Aage Rasmussen, Bent Sørensen, Per Nørgård, and more. He has among other things composed a number of commission pieces for important festivals, publishers, and ensembles, such as the Akademie der Künste, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, TRANSIT Festival, and Den Jyske Opera.

Book of Prayers will shape as an ambiguous piece that both celebrates human devotion in prayer and at the same time displays the thought-provoking idea of praying rather than acting. It is a deeply felt portrait of hope that at the same time criticizes religion and criticizes political apathy and aggression, of which both prayer and slogan respectively can reflect.

The text for the oratorio originates from the Stasi’s systematic documentation of the slogans on the street in the dramatic months by the end of 1989 – made concrete in one specific notebook with the handwritten notes of Stasi-agents on the slogans of the October Revolution.

02sep20:00Truls Mørk, cello & Behzod Abduraimov, piano20:00 Entré: Entrance: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 (tax included)

23jun15:0016:30Denmark revisited - Mogens Dahl Chamberchoir15:00 - 16:30 Simon Peters Kirke Entré: kr. 100,- inkl. gebyrer

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PROGRAM:
Korkoncert med musik af Svend S. Schultz, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Hugo Alfven, Wilhelm Stenhammer, Jørgen Jersild m.fl.

MEDVIRKENDE:
MOGENS DAHL KAMMERKOR
MOGENS DAHL, DIRIGENT

Simon Peters Kirke
Wibrandtsvej 41B
2300 København S.

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Mogens Dahl Kammerkor inviterer til midsommerkoncert!

Når den nordiske sommer besynges, vibrerer alle sanser. Koncerten indeholder cremen af nordisk korlyrik, hvor der vækkes stemninger til live, der emmer af lette farver og dufte, men også af længsel og smerte.

Pär Lagerkvists tyste nordiske digt, sat i musik af svenske Gabriella Gullin, hensætter os til et øde kosmos og med I.P. Jacobsens digt ”Alle de voksende skygger” skabes en drømmende stemning, der rækker ud mod rene stjerner og tunge skyer. I Johannes V. Jensens Gensyn med Danmark er vi helt på knæ ved de danske kyster og dufter til ” en kølig yndig flora”. Svend S. Schultz har iklædt de fnuglette tekster en lys, men også melankolsk tone.

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Hugo Alfven og Wilhelm Stenhammer sætter toner til I.P. Jacobsens anelsesfulde Stemning, hvor blomsterne græder i skumringen. Koncerten indeholder ligeledes Jørgen Jersilds tre store romantiske korsange – musik med en usædvanlig minutiøs og stemningsskabende tekstnærhed. Her er direkte sansninger af den milde livgivende regn og blæsten i sommernatten med et fantastisk tonemaleri, der bl.a. frembringer en overdådighed af milde muld – og bladdufte.

Vi lever for og af lyset og må glædes over det og udnytte det til fulde, så længe det er her. I musikken, i kærligheden, i kunsten og i livet.

Velkommen til et genbesøg ved de danske kyster – og naturligvis den lyse nat.

05maj20:00Liebeslieder20:00 Entré: DKK 275 /students DKK 175 (including fees)

14apr20:00Ein Deutsches Requiem, Holmen Church20:00 Holmens Kirke Entré: DKK 275 /students DKK 175 (including fees)

09apr20:00Lise de la Salle20:00 Entré: DKK 395 /students DKK 295 (including fees)

11mar20:00Jerusalem Quartet20:00 Entré: DKK 395 /students DKK 295 (including fees)

03feb20:00Trio con Brio Copenhagen 20th birthday concert20:00 Entré: DKK 395 /students DKK 295 (including fees)

16jan20:00Juilliard String Quartet20:00 Entré: DKK 395 /students DKK 295 (including fees)

08dec19:3022:15Handel's Messiah - sold out19:30 - 22:15 Holmens Kirke Entré: DKK 275 / students DKK 175 including fees

07dec19:3022:15Handel's Messiah - sold out19:30 - 22:15 Holmens Kirke Entré: DKK 275 / students DKK 175 including fees

14nov20:0022:00CANCELLED: Francesco Piemontesi, piano20:00 - 22:00 Mogens Dahl Koncertsal Entré: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 including fees

04nov22:0023:15Halloween Concert: Aftonland22:00 - 23:15 Christians Kirke Entré: DKK 250 / students DKK 150

22okt20:0022:00The Calidore Quartet20:00 - 22:00 Mogens Dahl Koncertsal Entré: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 including fees

08okt20:0022:00Alice Coote and Julius Drake20:00 - 22:00 Mogens Dahl Koncertsal Entré: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 including fees

24sep20:0022:00The Belcea Quartet20:00 - 22:00 Mogens Dahl Koncertsal Entré: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 including fees

23sep20:0022:00Requiem from the B sides of life20:00 - 22:00 Christians Kirke Entré: DKK 175

02sep20:0022:00Trio Wanderer20:00 - 22:00 Mogens Dahl Koncertsal Entré: DKK 395 / students DKK 295 including fees

02sep20:0022:00Season ticket - five chamber music concerts, autumn 201820:00 - 22:00 Mogens Dahl Koncertsal Entré: DKK 1700

16maj20:00AMERICANA: THE AMERICAN SUBLIME20:00 Johan Borups Højskole Entré: DKK 250 / students DKK 125

14maj20:00ANDREAS BRANTELID AND CHRISTIAN IHLE HADLAND20:00 Entré: DKK395 / students DKK295

01apr20:00SEASON TICKET: FIVE CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS, SPRING 201820:00

25mar20:00SERGEI BABAYAN20:00

25mar20:00EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM20:00

18mar20:00FLORIAN BOESCH AND ROGER VIGNOLES20:00

19feb20:00JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET 20:00

25jan20:00REFLECTIONS, CIRKLES, SPIRALES20:00

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For this concert Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir collaborates with one of the Danish big names in contemporary music: Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen. We stand side by side, when NJORD Biennale’s focus on the relationship between music and poetry unfolds for the first time.

Through an interplay of choir works and short instrumental intervals the audience slides away on a spiral triggered by festival composer Anna Thorvaldsdottirs Ad Genoa into the core of the concert, where a string trio meditates over her Reflections before being twirled outwards again to complete the evening with Per Nørgård’s Dream Songs for choir and percussion.

This concert is the opening concert at this year’s NJORD New Nordic Music Biennale, and we thus open with a tribute to art and its ability to create reflection. With Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen as cornerstones, the evening’s program revolves around life as a constant search; a journey for clarity across darkness – and art’s ability to realise these reflections in spoken word as well as in wordless music. For more information, please visit: www.njordbiennale.com

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PROGRAMME:

Anna Thorvaldsdottir (f. 1977)
Ad Genua for sopran, choir and string quintet (2016).
Words: Gudrun Eva Minervudottir

Anna Cederberg-Orreteg (f. 1958)
Music to Hear, Sonet 8 for choir and clarinet (2009), written for Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir. Words: William Shakespeare

Benjamin Staern (f. 1978)
2 Tranströmer songs for alto and piano (2008)
Words: Tomas Tranströmer
April och Tystnad
Tre strofer

Anna Thorvaldsdottir:
Reflections for string quartet (2016)

Lasse Thoresen (f. 1949)
SolSirkler for baritone, string quartet and piano (2016)
Words: Edvard Munch

Per Nørgård (f. 1932)
Drømmesange for choir and percussion (1981)
Words: Finn Methling

In between pieces with words there will be a performance of Anders Nordentofts ‘Three vignets for solo viola’.

24jan20:00Emerson String Quartet20:00

24jan20:00Season ticket: Five chamber music concerts, spring 201820:00

09dec20:00Messias - Holmens Kirke, København20:00 Holmens Kirke

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Mogens Dahl Kammerkor
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Sopran: Dénise Beck
Alt: Karolina Blixt
Tenor: James Oxley
Bas: Peter Harvey
Mogens Dahl, dirigent

Det er nu tiende gang Mogens Dahl Kammerkor synger julen ind med Händels mest populære korværk – og en skandinavisk-britisk stjernebesætning, hvor et af Danmarks førende vokalensembler stævner Englands mest fremtrædende barokorkester til et musikalsk møde med et internationalt solisthold.

Det er tredje gang, koret slår pjalterne sammen med The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment fra London, et af verdens mest anerkendte specialensembler for musikken fra 1700-tallet. Også to af solisterne, James Oxley (tenor) og Peter Harvey (bas), bliver hentet i England. Begge to har høstet stor ros for deres fortolkninger af engelsk barokmusik og ikke mindst Händels udødelige arier.

Men også denne traditionsrige koncert i Holmens Kirke er blevet rost til skyerne af samtlige anmeldere, som har forelsket sig i Mogens Dahls slanke og sprøde barokudgave:.

★★★★★★

“Mogens Dahls mageløse Messias” skrev Berlingskes anmelder Søren Schauser sidste år, og også Politiken var begejstret: ”Det var enkelt, smukt og forløsende”, skrev Thomas Michelsen og gav fem hjerter.

Skrevet oprindeligt som påskeoratorium, fik ”The Messiah” ved sin uropførelse i Dublin for præcist 275 år siden en entusiastisk modtagelse af publikum. Begejstringen varede ved, således at værket – yderst usædvanligt for selv store og betydningsfulde kompositioner fra den tid – siden har haft en stort set uafbrudt opførelseshistorie. Den fortsættes nu i Holmens Kirke med 10-års jubilæet for Mogens Dahl Kammerkors fremførelse, som i sig selv danner en tradition.

Om solisterne:

Dénise Beck er uden tvivl og i bogstavelig forstand én af de mest spændende danske stemmer på Europas opera- og koncertscener. Hun har sunget på bl.a. Bregenzer Festspiele, Operaen i Oslo, i Concertgebouw i Amsterdam og i Wiener Konzerthaus samt vundet en lang række fornemme priser. Dénise vender jævnligt tilbage til sin hjemby København, har bl.a. sunget med DR SymfoniOrkestret og var solist i Mogens Dahl Kommerkors Messias-opførelser i 2013. Læs mere

Karolina Blixt er født og opvokset i Stockholm og debuterede i Händels ”Xerxes”, én af de mest kendte barokoperaer. Lige siden har musik fra 1700-tallet spillet en særlig rolle i Karolinas kunstneriske karriere, og hun har sunget med nogle af de førende barokensembler. Læs mere

James Oxley tæller iblandt Storbritanniens mest betydningsfulde tenorer i vor tid. Der er næppe nogen af de store koncertsale tilbage, som han ikke har optrådt i. James Oxley har samarbejdet med nogle af de førende orkestre, kor og dirigenter inden for barokmusikken, herunder The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Monteverdi Choir og Philippe Herreweghe. Læs mere

Peter Harvey er endnu en kendt ansigt blandt solisterne i Mogens Dahl Kammerkors årlige Messias-koncerter. Sidste års anmeldere beskrev hans store udtryksmæssige spændevidde som hhv. ”blød og brutal” (Berlingske) og ”smukt kommunikerende med komprimeret ondskab i stemmen” (Politiken). Listen over de orkestre og dirigenter han har samarbejdet med, kan læses som en slags barokmusikverdenens ”Who is Who”. Læs mere

Det verdensberømte barokorkester fra London spiller på periodekorrekte instrumenter og er kendt for en frisk og ukonventionel stil. Ensemblet skriver om sig selv: ”For tre årtier siden tog en gruppe musikere fra London et grundigt kig på den mærkværdige institution, der kaldes ‘orkester’, og besluttede at starte forfra. Allerførst smed de regelbogen ud. Hvorfor nøjes med en enkel dirigent i spidsen for det hele? Nej. Hvorfor specialisere sig i et bestemt repertoire? For begrænsende. Perfektionere et enkelt værk, og så gå videre? For dovent. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment var født.“ Orkestrets søgen efter autenticitet, topklasse, mangfoldighed og nytænkning gør det til en oplagt og højt skattet samarbejdspartner for Mogens Dahl Kammerkor, som i år er med de traditionelle Messias-koncerter for tredje gang.

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Program:
Messias, oratorium af G. F. Händel (1685 – 1759)
Mogens Dahl Kammerkor &
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Dirigent: Mogens Dahl
Sopran: Dénise Beck. Biografi
Alt: Karolina Blixt. Biografi
Tenor: James Oxley. Biografi
Bas: Peter Harvey. Biografi

08dec20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: Handel's Messiah20:00

21nov20:00Takács String Quartet20:00

06nov20:00Daniel Müller-Schott and Francesco Piemontesi20:00

05nov20:00Exposed on the mountains of the heart - All Saints Concert20:00

09okt20:00Katia and Marielle Labèque20:00

27sep20:00Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov20:00

11sep20:00Mark Padmore and Julius Drake20:00

11sep20:00Season ticket: Five chamber music concerts, autumn 201720:00

09sep20:00BrunchConcert in Mogens Dahl Concert Hall20:00

07sep20:00Golden Days Concert - Borups Folk High School, Copenhagen20:00

16maj20:00Lise de la Salle, piano20:00

30apr20:00Tenebrae – Easter Light20:00

23apr20:00The Danish String Quartet20:00

13mar20:00Pinchas Zukerman & Yefim Bronfman20:00

14feb20:00Valentine’s Evening in the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall.20:00

29jan20:00Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk trio [CANCELED]20:00

10jan20:00Leonidas Kavakos, violin and Enrico Pace, piano20:00

10jan20:00Season ticket: Five chamber music concerts, spring 201720:00

03dec20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: Handel's Messiah 3. Dec.20:00

02dec20:002. and 3. Dec. - Handel's Messiah in Holmens Kirke20:00

14nov20:0014. Nov - Trio Con Brio Copenhagen20:00

06nov20:00Stillness Of The Night - All Saints' Eve With Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir20:00

26okt20:00The Casals Quartet20:00

12okt20:00Sarah Chang, violin20:00

27sep20:00Marc-André Hamelin, piano20:00

13sep20:00SIR WILLARD WHITE, bass. JULIUS DRAKE, piano20:00

13sep20:00Season ticket, Chamber Concerts in Copenhagen20:00

11sep20:00The Cosmic Trip20:00

20aug20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir: Reunion with Denmark20:00

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MOGENS DAHL CHAMBER CHOIR
ADRIAN LLOYD HUGHES, narrator
DAVID PALMQUIST, horn
MOGENS DAHL, conductor

When the Nordic summer begins, all senses start vibrating. Notes from Carl Nielsen, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Jørgen Jersild, Per Gunnar Petersson, Hugo Alfvén and Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, among others, evoke sentiments that ooze of light colours and fragrances, but also of yearning and pain. It is with great knowledge, insight and a charming flair for communication that Adrian Lloyd Hughes guides the audiences through a concert programme featuring the cream of Nordic choir lyrics.

The surroundings of two Danish museums add an extra dimension to both known and unknown pearls from Nordic choir repertoire. It is against the backdrop of high-class architecture and art that the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir invites to a summer reunion where sound, light and speech merge to reinforce each other like never before.

WE BID YOU WELCOME TO A CONCERT EXPERIENCE IN A LEAGUE OF ITS OWN IN DENMARK\’S SUMMERLAND!

Saturday, 20 August:
Faaborg Museum, 2:30 pm

Saturday, 20 August:
Johannes Larsen Museum, Kerteminde, 5:30 pm

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Program
Gabrielle Gullin (1961 – ): Tyst er det rum (1993)
Hugo Alfvén (1872 – 1960): Stemning (1938)
Svend S. Schultz: Gensyn med Danmark (1974)
Gensyn med Danmark
De vilde blomster
Nattergalen
Sidste sang
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867 – 1942): Stemning (1898)
Per Gunnar Petersson (1954 – ): Aftonland (2014)
Allt er så underligt fjärran idag
Det är om aftonen man brytar upp
Engång skall du vara en av dem
Den döde
Jørgen Jersild (1913 – 2004): De lyse nætter (1969)
Adam de la Halle (o. 1237 – 1288): Kom, du ljuva hjärteven
Carl Nielsen (1865 – 1931):
Hvor sødt i sommeraftenstunden
Sænk kun dit hoved, du blomst
Skal blomsterne da visne
Tit er jeg glad
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 – 1927): Stemning (1890)
Oluf Ring (1884 – 1946):
Hvor smiler fager den danske kyst
Danmark nu blunder den lyse nat

17maj20:00Maria João Pires (CANCELLED)20:00

06apr20:00Danielle De Niese, soprano / Julius Drake, piano20:00

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There is almost no end to the praise the 36-year-old Danielle de Niese has received in the world of opera. But her road to a career with great soprano roles on the prestigious opera stages in San Francisco, Hamburg, New York and other cities has been everything but ordinary. She was born in Melbourne, Australia of Sri Lankan parents with European blood in their veins. At the age of nine, she won a talent program on Australian TV, and after her family moved to Los Angeles, she began her career in television, among other things, giving her an Emmy as children\’s program host.

As early as during her teenage years, she appeared in the Los Angeles Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. After private studies and training at Mannes College of Music in New York, her career took off for real. A career, which includes famous lied recitals worldwide.

We have had the pleasure of hearing the brilliant pianist and accompanist Julius Drake several times before, at concerts in Mogens Dahl Concert Hall. Among other things, he has stood side by side with Birgid Steinberger and Mark Padmore here in the concert hall. He is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and regularly performs on stages such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw, La Scala and Wigmore Hall.

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Program
John Dowland (1563 – 1626):
Come again, sweet love doth now invite
What if I never Speede?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791):
Giunse alfin il momento… Al Desio K.577
Edvard Grieg (1843- 1907): Haugtussa. Op. 67
Det Syng (It sings)
Veslemøy
Blåbærli (Blueberry Hill)
Møte (Meeting)
Elsk (Love)
Killingdans (Dance)
Vond Dag (Evil Day
Ved Gjetlebekken (By the brook)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963):
Fiançailles pour rire, FP.
No. 1 La Dame D’Andre
No. 2 Dans L’herbe
No. 3 Il vole
No. 4 Mon Cadavre est Doux Comme un Gant
No. 5 Violon
No. 6 Fleurs
Georges Bizet (1837-1875):
Chanson D’Avril
Adieu de L’hotesse Arabe
La Coccinelle
Tarantelle

22mar20:00The Passion of St John. Danish premiere.20:00

14mar20:00Brooklyn Rider20:00

06mar20:00Emerson String Quartet20:00

26jan20:00Season ticket, Chamber Concerts20:00

26jan20:00Juilliard String Quartet20:00

12dec20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: Handel's Messiah 12. Dec.20:00

11dec20:00Messias i København 2015. Holmens Kirke 11/12 201520:00

11dec20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: Handel's Messiah 11. Dec.20:00

22nov20:00Nikolaj Znaider, violin20:00

10nov20:00Alisa Weilerstein, cello. Inon Barnatan, piano.20:00

01nov20:00The light of eternity: Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir in Christians' Church, Copenhagen20:00

31okt20:00Leif Ove Andsnes, piano20:00

17sep20:00Trio con Brio Copenhagen with international guests20:00

16sep20:00Zeitgeist - Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and author Knud Romer in Church of Saint Petri20:00

13sep20:00Bo Skovhus, baritone20:00

13sep20:00Season ticket, Chamber Concerts20:00

12maj20:00Artemis Quartet20:00

29apr20:00The Danish String Quartet20:00

13apr20:00Trio con Brio Copenhagen20:00

02apr20:00Nordic Mass - Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir20:00

01apr20:00Nordic Mass in the Dome of Lund, Sweden20:00

23feb20:00Mark Padmore & Julius Drake20:00

05feb20:00Jeremy Denk, piano20:00

02feb20:00Season ticket, Chamber Concerts20:00

15dec20:00Season card20:00

14dec20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, Handel's Messiah20:00

13dec20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, Handel's Messiah20:00

10dec20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber choir, Handel's Messiah, The Culture Yard, Helsingor20:00

30nov20:00Christoph Prégardien and Julius Drake20:00

23nov20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, Enticement of the Silence20:00

10nov20:00The Casals Quartet20:00

27okt20:00Angela Hewitt, piano20:00

28sep20:00Ivo Pogorelich, piano20:00

21sep20:00War Portraits 1914-2014. Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir20:00

18sep20:00Trio con Brio Copenhagen and international guests20:00

13sep20:00French Salon 1914 - Stravinskij & Chanel - Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir20:00

13aug20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir's flying squad20:00

16jun20:00NORDIC MASS, Garnisons Church, Copenhagen20:00

15jun20:00NORDIC MASS AT O/MODERNT FESTIVAL, STOCKHOLM20:00

23maj20:00NORDIC MASS AT BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL20:00

07maj20:00Martin Fröst & The Danish String Quartet20:00

22apr20:00Brooklyn Rider20:00

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Johnny Gandelsman, violin – Colin Jacobsen, violin – Nicholas Cords, viola – Eric Jacobsen, cello The New York based ensemble has been praised as the future of chamber music, no less. One paper wrote that they have the energy of young rock stars in their re-launching of classical music, while simultaneously celebrating the music as is.Hear the young star ensemble play Schubert’s Piano Movement with its sweet and singable passages, followed by Glass’ 2nd String Quartet with the well-known Glassian simplicity in addition to great beauty.Several of the most exiting contemporary composers have composed for Brooklyn Rider. Among them Russian-American Lev Zhurbin, also known by his artist’s name of Ljova. Hear his tribute to Roma musician Nicola Neacşu. Languishing gipsy inspiration flourishing everywhere.Bartok’s quartet is tough and harsh. In glimpses, like for instance four minutes into the first movement, the music changes to soft and peaceful harmony. Three miniatures by Colin Jacobsen go far afield. There is an Arabian moonshine in addition to rhythmic ingredients from pop and rock music, soft as well as spicy scents of flower, and fiery cascades in a fabulous play with the string quartet’s range of sound possibilities.“Brooklyn Rider is re-creating the 300-year-old form of the string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” – National Public Radio

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Program
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828):
Kvartetsats i c-mol, D 703
Philip Glass (1937 – ):
Strygekvartet nr. 2, ‘Company’I. II. III. IV.
Lev Zhurbin ’Ljova’ (1978 – ): Culai
The GameThe MuseThe Song (for Romica Puceanu)Love Potion, ExpiredFuneral Doina (for Culai)
Arr. Lev Zhurbin:
Doina Oltului. Rumænsk trad.
Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945):
Strygekvartet nr. 2. Sz 67ModeratoAllegro molto capricciosoLento
Colin Jacobsen (1978 – ):
Three MiniaturesMajnun’s MoonshineThe Flowers of EsfahanA Walking Fire

17apr20:00Arvo Pärt: The Passion of St. John20:00

09apr20:00Angela Hewitt20:00

14feb20:00Leif Ove Andsnes20:00

29jan20:00The Juilliard String Quartet20:00

08dec20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir: Handel's Messiah20:00

07dec20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir: Handel's Messiah20:00

19nov20:00The Apollon Musagete Quartet20:00

04nov20:00Trio Wanderer20:00

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No-one can betoken a stringent fugue like Beethoven and only seconds later dissolve this favourite form of the Baroque into classical Viennese charm. In the first movement of his piano trio he introduces the cello, them the violin and finally the piano. A succession and a prioritization that flows to and fro in this piece from 1808.With quarter tones and striking piano chords Copland introduces us to both dancing and more sinister passages with melodic material inspired by Jewish folk tunes. The listener is never in doubt of the serious background of Copland’s music. With great empathy he depicts the harsh and often tragic fate of the Jewish people.In the Shostakovich we are met by delicate flageolets in the cello. A hymn-like melody slowly unfolds to a melancholy fugue. The music was written after the death of a close friend and in the light of the horrific reports about the holocaust that finally reached the public in 1944.Trio WandererThis years ensemble in residence at Mogens Dahl Concert Hall makes audiences sit up and take notice in concert halls all over the world, be it at the Philharmonics of Berlin, at Wigmore Hall, La Scala or opera houses and intimate stages in the US, Japan or South America.Their Copland and Shostakovich CD has received enthusiastic reviews. David Hurwitz writes in Classics Today that their recording will be the new benchmark for these pieces. “Holy cow,” he exclaims, “this is some terrific chamber music playing! In fact, there is no finer version available of Shostakovich’s epic and tragic Op. 67.”The three members of the trio are all graduates from the Conservatoire de Paris.Programme:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 70, no. 2Aaron Copland (1900-1990): Vitebsk: Study on a Jewish Theme. Piano TrioDmitri Sjostakovitj (1906-1975): Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor, op. 67

03nov20:00All Saints’ Concert: The Great Mystery20:00

29okt20:00Bo Skovhus & Stefan Vladar20:00

09okt20:00Andreas Brantelid & Peter Friis Johansson20:00

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The young cello virtuoso Andreas Brantelid will be serving national dishes spiced with known and unknown flavours.Hovering harmonies as with the French impressionists, but distinctive melodies in Hungarian popular style are the most important building blocks in Kodály’s sonata for cello and piano.Dohnányi adds to the programme with Hungarian colouring of brilliant magic and rhythmic delicacies in his cello sonata.Grieg takes us closer to our own latitudes, and connoisseurs of Grieg will find familiar strains in this marvellous piece. We will hear quotes from Grieg’s famous Piano Concert in A minor and the music for Sigurd Jorsalfar.The Australian composer of the very eccentric personality, Percy Grainger, was passionately interested in Scandinavia. He learned the local dialect during his long stays in central Jutland where he enthusiastically gathered folk tunes. The Danish national anthem has never been harmonized as grandly as this!Andreas Brantelid and Peter Friis JohanssonThe still very young Brantelid goes from success to success, but has retained a present and unpretentious attitude. We are proud to have been able repeatedly to invite this award winning cello virtuoso to our intimate stage, where the ambience present ideal conditions for the instrument’s timbre.We are also looking forward to seeing Swedish pianist Peter Friis Johansson again. His solo career is steaming ahead, and simultaneously he has gained an impressive reputation as a chamber musician in the company of international soloists.Programme:Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967): Sonata for Cello and Piano, op. 4Ernő Dohnányi (1877-1960): Cello Sonata, op. 8Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Cello Sonata in A minor, op. 36Percy Grainger (1882-1961): Scandinavian Suite

25sep20:00Trio con Brio Copenhagen20:00

10sep20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir: Studies in Red20:00

19jun20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir's flying squad20:00

16maj20:00Mark Padmore & Julius Drake20:00

30apr20:00Angela Hewitt20:00

07apr20:00Trio Wanderer20:00

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In the Mozart the pulse is being played with. The first movement of the piano trio from 1776 is notated in three-four time, but the swaying dance time is elegantly interrupted by little passages where the listener will experience a sense of a two beat. The piano is the protagonist in this beauty-seeking music which continues in a melting adagio with the violin taking the lead in carrying the melody. There is more drama afoot in the last movement where the pianist’s virtuosity is tested.Chausson ended his days after crashing on his bicycle, in the middle of a promising career, but also with a mind haunted by depressions. The trio in G minor is one of his first great works, and it shows a great deal of temperament, French elegance and harmonic finesse.Tchaikovsky’s trio was composed at the death of his friend, the pianist and composer Nicolai Rubinstein, and has the death march as a central theme.Trio WandererThis year’s ensemble in residence at Mogens Dahl Concert Hall makes audiences in concert halls all over the world sit up, from the Berlin Philharmonics to Wigmore Hall, La Scala or opera venues and intimate stages in the US, Japan or South America. Releases at Sony Classical and, since 1999, at Harmonia Mundi have been given prominence by reviewers all over the world. The New York Times have called their Mendelssohn interpretations the new standard for this music. In the trio’s 25th anniversary year, 2012, they released a complete set of Beethoven’s piano trios. The three members of the trio are all graduates from the Conservatoire de Paris.Programme:W. A. Mozart (1756–1791): Piano Trio 1, KV 254 in B-flat majorErnest Chausson (1855–1899): Trio in G minor, op. 3Peter Tchaikovsky (1840–1893): Piano Trio in A minor, op. 50

28mar20:00Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir: Maundy Thursday concert20:00