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Friedrich Cerha Day
Ensemble Modern; H K Gruber chansonnier
Date
Sat 10 Oct 2015, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Ensemble Modern
    • H K Gruberchansonnier

    Programme

    • Friedrich Cerha
      b. 1926
        • Konzertante Tafelmusik for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and trumpet
        • Piccola comedia for bassoon, oboe, trumpet, viola and percussion
          (world première) [1]

    Interval

    • Friedrich Cerha
      b. 1926
        • Keintate for medium voice (chansonnier) and instruments
    1. Co-commissioned by Ensemble Modern, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

    Overview

    With HK ‘Nali’ Gruber taking hiscustomary role as chansonnier, thisconcert tribute to the work of FriedrichCerha celebrates the creative energy,diverse historical allusions and originalityof contemporary Austrian music.

    Keintate,first performed in 1983, recalls Cerha’searly days playing second fiddle inViennese folk bands, supplied by a streamof popular tunes and intensified by thehyper-real dialect verse of Ernst Kein.

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