Dance with the devil

Mephisto

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Franz Liszt – Mephisto Waltz No. 1

      Allegro vivace. Quasi presto

 

Eurico Carrapatoso – Cinco Elegias

      a Bartok

      a Germaine Tailleferre - Carion

      a Anton Webern - Carion

      a Olivier Messiaen - Carion

      a Igor Stravinski

 

Jacques Ibert – trois pièces brèves

      Allegro - Carion

      Andante - Carion

      Assez lent - Carion

 

Dmitri Shostakovich – Suite

      Galop

      Romance

      Waltz No. 2

 

Bela Bartok – Romanian Dances

      Der Tanz mit dem Stabe

      Braul

      Tanz aus Butschum

      Rumänische Polka

      Schnell-Tanz

 

Franz Liszt – Grand études de Paganini, No. 6

      Quasi presto

The audience fainted at concerts of the „devil violinist“ Niccolò Paganini. Some even claim he has sold his soul to the devil to play masterly as he did.

Virtuosity is also the characteristic feature of the woodwind quintet CARION: The perfect mastery of the instruments in connection with the sophisticated stage performance makes the musicians masters of their profession.

It’s the Mephistophelian seduction that runs like a red thread through this programme. The numerous Transylvanian folk songs in the works of Bartók und Farkas lend wings to the idea Count Dracula himself shakes a leg while hearing these witty melodies.

Even the often depressive-acting Shostakovich could not resist the  ease and humor while writing his dance music. And then there is Liszt with his Paganini variations and his Mephisto Waltz … mesmerizing, demanding, colorful and devilishly virtuosic! It can’t get better than this!

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Photo: Jānis Deinats
Hermann D. Koppel – Sonatina

      Allegro moderato - Andante quieto - Allegro ma molto gusto

Carl Nielsen – Quintet op. 43

      Allegro ben moderato

      Menuet

      Preludium. Tema con variazioni

Pēteris Vasks – Music for Fleeting Birds
      Music for Fleeting Birds
W.A. Mozart – Serenade in c minor “Nachtmusique”

      Allegro

      Andante

      Menuetto in canone

      Allegro

“What is this wonderful music? Can I come over and listen?”, said Carl Nielsen to his friend Christian Christiansen during a phone conversation back in 1921 when he heard members of the Copenhagen woodwind quintet rehearsing Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds in the background. Inspired by Mozart’s composition he soon decided to write his own work for the five winds, his famous Quintet op. 43. CARION moves between these two poles: Nielsen’s Quintet in the first part of the programme and Mozart’s inspiring Serenade KV 375

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