The thirteenth Lewes Chamber Music Competition takes place from 6 to eight June 2024 with inventive director Beatrice Philips bringing collectively 18 of as we speak’s most enjoyable chamber-musicians and soloists to discover the musical ties between Europe and America via celebrating the a hundred and fiftieth birthdays of Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives, together with Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Ode to Napoleon with actor Samuel West, and uncommon chamber variations of bigger scale works by Richard Strauss and Mahler.
The weekend opens with early piano quartets by Mahler and Richard Strauss together with music by Elliott Carter and Anton Webern’s quintet association of Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No.1, and there’s extra Schoenberg with a late-night efficiency of Verklärte Nacht. And the pageant will embrace extra Schoenberg together with performances of music by Berg, Zemlinsky, Schulhoff, Korngold, Hindemith, Brahms, Ives, Amy Seashore and Gershwin.
A splendidly formidable gala live performance options Guido Martin-Brandis’ association of the magical closing scenes from Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier with singers Hilary Cronin and Elinor Rolfe Johnson and Erwin Stein’s chamber association of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 for 12 musicians with Hilary Cronin returning for the soprano solo within the finale.
The ultimate live performance options one other uncommon efficiency, this time of Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon with actor Samuel West, plus Beethoven’s Septet and Charles Ives’ Largo for clarinet, piano and violin.
Full particulars from the pageant web site.
