Mendelssohn’s Octet – a miracle of the 19th century. 4 pm. Saturday 26th August 2023

Artturi Rönkä: Trio for viola, bassoon and piano  “Phases II” – premiere

Ernő Dohnányi: Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1

Mendelssohn Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20

Artturi Rönkä: Trio – premiere 

Ernő Dohnányi is apt to be the greatest composer you have never heard. He is celebrated as the “greatest” Hungarian “musician” after Franz Liszt, great because his musicianship encompassed his diversity of profound gifts as an epic concert pianist, tireless conductor, superb composer, educator, administrator and ambassador that essentially encapsulated the entirety of Hungarian classical music culture for decades leading up to WWII.

Mendelssohn composed his glorious Octet for strings in 1825 when he was merely 16 years old. Conrad Wilson summarizes,
“Its youthful verve, brilliance and perfection make it one of the miracles of nineteenth-century music.”

Pablo Hernán Benedí, Sini Simonen, Tim Crawford, Maria Florea – violin, Hélène Clément, Michel Camille – viola, Pau Codina, Marko Ylönen – cello,  Antti Salovaara – bassoon, Christian Ihle Hadland – piano

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 Artturi Rönkä: Trio for viola, bassoon and piano  “Phases II” – premiere
Michel Camille – viola, Antti Salovaara – bassoon, Christian Ihle Hadland – piano

Ernő Dohnányi. (1877 – 1960)
Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1
I Allegro
II Scherzo: Allegro vivace
III Adagio
IV Finale: Allegro animato
Christian Ihle Hadland – piano, Sini Simonen, Tim Crawford – violin, Hélène Clément – viola, Marko Ylönen – cello

Felix Mendelssohn. (1809 – 1847)
Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20
I  Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco
II  Andante
III  Scherzo: Allegro leggierissimo
IV  Presto
Pablo Hernán Benedí, Tim Crawford, Sini Simonen, Maria Florea – violin, Hélène Clément, Michel Camille – viola, Pau Codina, Marko Ylönen – cello