Genre: Chamber music, Vocal music

Monday at Last with soprano

Kerstin Avemo in, among other things, Arnold Schönberg's passionate music for soprano and string quartet.

In Monday at Last, violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and cellist Kati Raitinen invite guest artists to perform both newer and older music. This time, the internationally acclaimed Swedish soprano Kerstin Avemo is the Monday guest.

Avemo has, among other things, received awards from Svenska Dagbladet and the Opera Magazine. She has performed on many of the world's great stages. A while back, she played all the female roles in The Tales of Hoffmann at the Gothenburg Opera, and on the same stage, she performed the only role in Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire – a production for which she also contributed the idea, concept, and direction.

Here, Avemo performs songs by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, which are brought into our time through Aribert Reimann's more modern adaptation. Schönberg wrote his passionate second string quartet during a marital crisis when his wife Mathilde temporarily left him for a young painter, Richard Gerstl. A soprano enters in the last two movements, and in the second movement, Schönberg quotes something that can be called a Viennese street song: Ach, du lieber Augustin. Mendelssohn and Schönberg frame Dvorák's idyllic Terzetto for two violins and viola.

Kerstin Avemo in, among other things, Arnold Schönberg's passionate music for soprano and string quartet.

Monday 23 September 2024 19.00

Ends approximately 21.00

Price:

220 SEK

In Monday at Last, violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and cellist Kati Raitinen invite guest artists to perform both newer and older music. This time, the internationally acclaimed Swedish soprano Kerstin Avemo is the Monday guest.

Avemo has, among other things, received awards from Svenska Dagbladet and the Opera Magazine. She has performed on many of the world's great stages. A while back, she played all the female roles in The Tales of Hoffmann at the Gothenburg Opera, and on the same stage, she performed the only role in Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire – a production for which she also contributed the idea, concept, and direction.

Here, Avemo performs songs by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, which are brought into our time through Aribert Reimann's more modern adaptation. Schönberg wrote his passionate second string quartet during a marital crisis when his wife Mathilde temporarily left him for a young painter, Richard Gerstl. A soprano enters in the last two movements, and in the second movement, Schönberg quotes something that can be called a Viennese street song: Ach, du lieber Augustin. Mendelssohn and Schönberg frame Dvorák's idyllic Terzetto for two violins and viola.

  • The music

    Approximate times
  • Antonín Dvorák Terzetto for two violins and viola
    19 min
  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy/Aribert Reimann ...oder soll es Tod bedeuten? Eight Songs and Six Intermezzi for soprano and string quartet
    28 min
  • Intermission
    25 min
  • Arnold Schönberg String Quartet No. 2 with soprano solo
    30 min
  • Encore:
  • Clara Schumann Ich stand in dunklen Träumen
    3 min
  • Participants

  • Zilliacus Quartet
  • Kerstin Avemo soprano
  • Cecilia Zilliacus violin
  • Julia Kretz-Larsson violin
  • Ylvali Zilliacus viola

Monday 23 September 2024 19.00

Ends approximately 21.00

Price:

220 SEK


Monday at last is the concert series where Cecilia Zilliacus and Kati Raitinen invites guest artists who together with them offer both newer and older music.

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