Music Festival Days in The Diamond – Friday

Experience the highly sought-after American violinist Tessa Lark, who has been nominated for a Grammy for best classical instrumental solo, together with composer and bassist Michael Thurber. In this concert, the duo takes their joint album Invention as a starting point. The album's musical expression stands as a combination of styles from completely different branches of instrumental music, and includes both inspirations from American folk music, bluegrass and Bach, whose inventions the duo has both interpreted and named the album after.

Participants

Tessa Lark (violin), Michael Thurber (bass)

Programme

JS Bach Inventions
Thurber/Lark

Join us on an incredibly breathtaking journey into the Austrian winter landscape. "This is truly one of the most breathtaking and moving versions of Franz Shubert's Winterreise I have ever heard", says programme manager Jesper Egelund about the version of one of the major works of music history that we will hear at this concert. It is vocal chamber music with 24 songs to texts by the poet Wilhelm Müller, which in this version is performed by singer Nataša Mirković and Matthias Loibner on hurdy-gurdy (turning lyre).

Participants

Nataša Mirković, song. Matthias Loibner, hurdy-gurdy

Programme

Franz Schubert, Winterreise (arr. Loibner/ Mirković)

From Vienna to Copenhagen via Barcelona. Austria's capital, Vienna, gives its name to an entire style, Viennese classics, and two of the greatest exponents are the composers Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Here is the Casals Quartet with one of Haydn's "sun" quartets, which are considered the first masterpieces for the string quartet - they were composed as early as 1772. Mozart was younger and his dissonance quartet from 1785 is dedicated to Haydn, whom he admired, which was mutual. The Casals Quartet brings these two quartets with them, which suit the atmosphere of the Old Reading Room incredibly well.

Participants

Casals Quartet (ES): Vera Martinez, violin, Abel Thomás, violin, Jonathan Brown, viola, Arnau Thomás, cello

Programme

Haydn, String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, no. 3., Hob.III: 33 "Sonne"
Mozart, String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, KV 465, "Dissonanzenquartett"

The tour is a walking tour in both the Black Diamond and in the older part of the library, the Holm and Hansen buildings - including places that are not normally accessible to the public. Along the way, we talk about the architecture, history, cultural activities and the Royal Danish Library - and in several places you will be surprised by a musician! Eg. of Bach's solo music or folk music from Austria or Belarus.

Participants

Depending on Music Festival Days's other programme, three to four of the musicians present take part.

Experience the concert from the bridges on the 3rd, 4th and 5th floor or in the Atrium.

The musicians are the brothers Algot Swensen, who are both storming forward in the world of classical music, together with the just 21-year-old violinist Michael Germer and Jonas Frølund, who is one of Denmark's most promising young clarinetists. Hear i.a. music from Frølund's new solo release solo alone and more.

Participants

Jonas Frølund, clarinet, Michael Germer, violin, Nicholas Algot Swensen, viola, Jonathan Algot Swensen, cello

Programme

Igor Stravinsky, three pieces for solo clarinet

Johann Sebastian Bach, solo pieces

Richard Wagner, Tristan and Isolde (arr. for solo clarinet)

Manuel Ponce, duo for violin and viola, excerpt

Bohuslav Martinů, three madrigals for violin and viola, in excerpts

Maurice Ravel, duo sonata for violin and cello, in excerpt

One musician with her instrument, and some slightly unusual ones. Experience Aleksandra Dzenisenia playing the cimbalom – or in Danish: hakkebræt! Aleksandra Dzenisenia is a cimbalomist - one of the most distinguished of her kind - and has even been called "The Goddess of cimbalom". Experience her in this solo concert of Belarusian folk music and music by the living Romanian-Hungarian composer György Kurtág.

Participants

Aleksandra Dzenisenia (BR/FR)

Programme

György Kurtág and Belarusian folk music