Johannes Moser and Paul Rivinius @ West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2021 – Bantry and Beyond
Johannes Moser, Paul Rivinius
CONCERTGEBOUW KLEINE ZAAL, AMSTERDAM
Zemlinksy Cello Sonata
Fanny Mendelssohn Capriccio in A flat Brahms Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor Op.38
Fanny Mendelssohn was Felix Mendelssohn’s older sister. Like Clara Schumann she too was both composer and pianist and had to face social conventions that placed women’s artistic endeavours firmly below their domestic and social obligations. During her brother’s prodigy years, she acted as his guide and mentor. Disappointingly Felix took the conventional view that women should not be permitted to publish their compositions and a number of his sister’s works were published under his name giving future scholars much detective work. Fortunately her husband took a more progressive view and she managed to publish many of her works. Many contemporaries thought she could have also had a performance career like Clara Schumann, but although she clearly had the skill she may not have had the temperament. She and Felix remained close throughout their lives, they both died before their time within six months of each other. Felix composed his devastating F minor Quartet in her memory (see Event 28). Her Capriccio is just under seven minutes of pure bliss. Zemlinsky and Brahms are not bad either.
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West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2021: Bantry and Beyond (28 May–25 July)
West Cork Chamber Music Festival goes virtual. Although the circumstances for enjoying chamber music are different this year, the quality of the artists and the diversity and excellence of the programming are as high as ever.
The West Cork Chamber Music Festival is delighted to introduce its virtual incarnation, Bantry and Beyond. As the Festival musicians could not come to Bantry, the Festival has gone to the musicians. Festival-goers will become virtual travellers to destinations around Europe and USA. They will visit famous concert halls in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Chicago; historic Great Houses of Ireland and the Netherlands; a centuries old abbey with a fabulous library; Palaces in Prague and Vienna; old churches in London, Bantry and Amsterdam; a vaulted tunnel under a vanished convent in Cologne; studios in Amsterdam and Berlin; and Music Centres in Hungary and Italy.
The thirty Festival concerts will commence with four themed weekends starting in Vienna on 28 May before moving to daily concerts 25 June – 4 July followed by a coda of five concerts later in July. The concerts will be streamed by the platform OurConcerts.live. A PDF of the programme is available below.
Box office will open on 20th May 1pm and tickets can be bought here.
Audiences can buy a Festival Pass for all concerts, packages of 6 concerts, or single concerts.
All concerts will be available On Demand for 48 hours after broadcast. Visit the Box office link above to learn more.