Andreas Ottensamer I – Vienna for beginners
Kopatchinskaja, amerling, Mendes, Ahonen & Koreny
Chamber Music
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
7.30 pm, Lenk Church
Born in Vienna in 1922 but driven out by the access to power of the Nazis in 1938 because of his Jewish religion, Georg Kreisler is a contradictory figure. With songs such as “Tauben vergiften im Park” [Poisoning Pigeons in the Park], this American citizen with a caustic sense of humour, who defined himself as an anarchist, became one of the leading figures of German-speaking cabaret as early as the 1950s, without ever agreeing to return to the land of his ancestors. Viennese pianist, singer and composer of Hungarian origin, Bela Koreny revisits, at the request of clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer – who inaugurates his five-concert residency therewith – the legacy of this extraordinary composer whom he personally knew, having him cohabitate with Mahler and the three precursors of the Second Viennese School.
Andreas Ottensamer, Clarinet
Menuhin's Heritage Artist – Artist in Residence 2020
romana amerling, Song
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Violin
Pablo Mendes, Horn
Joonas Ahonen, Piano
Bela Koreny, Piano & Song
Chamber music of the new Vienna school meets Georg Kreisler
| Alban Berg (1885-1935) | |
| Adagio from the Kammerkonzert | 13' |
| Bela Koreny (1946) | |
| “Georg Kreisler” (1/3) | 10' |
| Anton Webern (1883-1945) | |
| 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7 | 5' |
| Alban Berg (1885-1935) | |
| 4 Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 | 10' |
| Bela Koreny (1946) | |
| “Georg Kreisler” (2/3) | 10' |
| – interval – | |
| Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) | |
| Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47 | 8' |
| Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) | |
| Lieder from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” (arr. for voice, clarinet and piano): | |
| “Rheinlegendchen” (No. 7) | 3' |
| “Wer hat das Liedlein erdacht?” (No. 4) | 3' |
| “Verlorene Müh” (No. 2) | 3' |
| Bela Koreny (1946) | |
| “Georg Kreisler” (3/3) | 10' |
| Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) | |
| “Gebet an Pierrot” [Prayer to Pierrot] from “Pierrot lunaire”, Op. 21 (Part 1, No. 9) | 1' |
| 100' | |
| CHF 80/60/40 |