FLeischmann | Ure | ZEYEN

when music becomes home…

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Survival and downfall, love and betrayal, winners and losers: in times of oppression and persecution, many musicians leave their homeland and never return. Their fight for life and recognition is also a fight for their music. It is the only thing they have left. It becomes their home, to each in it´s own way.

Johannes Fleischmann, Justus Zeyen and Benno Ure use music and texts to take us back to the first half of the twentieth century, to times of exile. In the smallest format of chamber music - violin and piano - they present the fascinations and trends of the most diverse period in music history. The presentation places the works in the context of their time and gives their creators a face.

The result is a special interplay, a concert full of discoveries and touching fates: a tribute to great musicians and their music.

Available languages of the program: German, English

  • Alexandre Tcherepnin (1899 St. Petersburg – 1977 Paris)
    Sonata for violin op. 14, 1st part (1922)

    Alexandre Tansman (1897 Łódź – 1986 Paris)
    Suite dans le style ancien pour piano – Sarabande (for piano solo, 1929)

    Adolf Busch (1891 Siegen – 1952 Guilford, Vermont, USA)
    Capriccio for violin and piano (1917)

    Erich Zeisl (1905 Vienna – 1959 Los Angeles)
    Sonata for violin (Brandeis) – 2nd part (1949-50)

    Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 Brno – 1957 Los Angeles)
    Sonata for violin op. 6 – 2nd part, revised (1912-13)

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    Nikolai Medtner (1880 Moscova – 1951 Londra)
    Three Nocturnes op. 16, nr. 3 (1907)

    Egon Wellesz (1885 Vienna – 1974 Oxford)
    Suite op. 56 - Adagio, Allegretto (1937, rev. 1957)

    Alexandre Tcherepnin (1899 St. Petersburg – 1977 Paris)
    Sonata for violin op. 14 – 3rd part (1922)

Beyond Familiar Paths

Description

It’s about living beyond familiar boundaries, about creativity in times of change, and about music on a journey.

Marches are composed in the Orient, piano melodies echo from the savannah, and a piece of music accompanies its creator through years of exile. What drives a composer to send his music into a world war, and how did an aluminum piano sound on a Zeppelin’s maiden voyage?

These imaginative works transport us to distant worlds. Some journeys are purely fictional, yet became major hits.

This program invites you to travel through music, discovering stories filled with surprises, tension, and the profound drama that life unfolds.

  • Charles Koechlin (1867 Paris - 1950 Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer)
    Les heurs persanes op. 65 no. 1 Sieste avant le départ (1913-1919)

    Josef Schrammel (1852 Wien - 1895 Wien)
    Sultanmarsch (ca. 1870)

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 New Orleans - 1869 Rio de Janeiro)
    La Savane. Ballade Créole op. 3 (ca. 1845)

    Richard Stöhr (1874 Wien - 1967 Montpelier)
    Aus der Violinsonate no. 9 op. 118 (1947)

    George Antheil (1900 Trenton - 1959 New York City)
    Violinsonate no. 1. IV. Presto (1923)

    Hanns Eisler (1898 Leipzig - 1962 Berlin)
    Die Reisesonate. II. Intermezzo. Andante semplice (1937)

    Ignacy Paderewski (1860 Kuryłówka - 1941 in New York)
    Violin Sonata a-Moll op. 13. I. Allegro con fantasia (1882)

    Musik aus dem Zeppelin beim Anflug auf New York 1936
    “I am in the mood for love.”

 

ARTISTS

Benno Ure, idea and moderation

Johannes Fleischmann, violin

Justus Zeyen, piano