Presentando REVOLUCIONES

XI Festival Málaga Clásica

11th International Chamber Music Festival

Del 29 mayo-4 junio en Teatro Echegaray y Teatro Cervantes

PIONEERS

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

Selection of songs from ‘7 Early Songs’, for soprano and piano

Susanne Hvinden Hals soprano

Julien Quentin piano

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

‘Erwartung’ from 4 Lieder, Op 2. No.1, para tenor y piano

Nils Georg Nilsen tenor

Julien Quentin piano

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

Four pieces for violin and piano, Op. 7

Joanna Wronko violin

Natalia Kuchaeva piano

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

‘Phantasy’, Op.47, for violin and piano

Jesus Reina violin

Julien Quentin piano

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

‘Verklärte Nacht’, Op.4, for string sextet

Anna Margrethe Nilsen violin

Jesus Reina violin

Chieh-Fan Yiu viola

Tomoko Akasaka viola

Adolfo Gutiérrez cello

Øyvind Gimse cello

Arnold Schönberg created a new compositional system in which a work is built from a predetermined set of twelve tones, the twelve notes that form the chromatic scale. This program presents this revolutionary system in the making, through the work of his pupils, Berg and Webern. It then culminates in Schönberg’s more dissonant Phantasy.

It is interesting to then listen immediately afterwards to Schönberg’s Verklarte Nacht, an earlier work which stretches the limits of tonality. The causes and consequences of this revolutionary writing are complex.

The shocking aesthetics of the works are the result of a profound artistic search in the midst of a critical time in history, surrounded by violence, war, and the exaltation of a set of values that were corrupting the human soul.