Greifensee Classical Music Festival – SEPTETT

INGOLF TURBAN, VIOLIN

JÜRG DÄHLER, VIOLA

WEN-SINN YANG, CELLO

WIES DE BOEVÉ, DOUBLE BASS

CALOGERO PALERMO, CLARINET

​MICHAEL VON SCHÖNERMARK, BASSOON

PASCAL DEUBER, HORNS

An evening celebrating the diversity of chamber music: seven outstanding musicians come together in a programme that showcases the full range of sounds possible with different instrumental combinations.

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Ludwig van Beethoven’s Serenade in D major, Op. 8, opens up a cheerful yet artfully balanced world for the string trio. The work combines elegance, a joy in playing and virtuosic dialogues between the violin, viola and cello, and reveals Beethoven on the path to his unmistakable musical language.

Carl Nielsen’s ‘Serenata in vano’ FS 68 provides a delightful contrast. The unusual instrumentation – clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello and double bass – lends this work a character all of its own: humorous, surprising and full of sonic subtleties. Nielsen plays with the possibilities of the instruments, creating a serenade that is at once playful and profound.

The highlight of the evening is Beethoven’s famous Septet in E flat major, Op. 20. This masterpiece of classical chamber music brings together strings and wind instruments to form a richly coloured ensemble and captivates with its melodic inventiveness, its virtuosic passages and its extraordinary balance between festive grandeur and chamber-musical intimacy.