Con spirito – Leipzig´s Chamber Music Festival

From 14th to 22nd September 2024, the Con spirito chamber music festival will bring life to the places where the famous Leipzig composers lived and worked. Look forward to international stars of the chamber music scene, take a look at this year’s program and safe your tickets!

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14 September 2024 | 18:00 | Leipzig Gewandhaus | Tickets: 35/30 EUR (reduced) plus advance booking fee (available at the Gewandhaus ticket shop)

Program:
Gabriel Fauré: Pavane op. 50
Gabriel Fauré: Romance op. 28 for violin and piano
Maurice Ravel: "Introduction et allegro" M. 46 for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Quintet No. 2 in B flat major op. 87
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Le Carnaval des Animaux" R.125 - with texts by Loriot - Grande Fantaisie Zoologique -

Flute: Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren | Clarinet: Andreas Lehnert | Violin: Antje Weithaas, Tanja Becker-Bender, Tobias Feldmann, Sayako Kusaka, Nathalie Schmalhofer | Viola: Pauline Sachse, Bennet Ortmann | Violoncello: Quirine Viersen, Arne Zeller, Peter Bruns | Double Bass: Burak Marlali | Percussion: Lukas Stillger | Harp: Laia Barberà De Luna | Piano: Jean-Paul Gasparian, Annegret Kuttner, Aleksandar Madžar | Speaker: Hans-Jürgen Schatz

15 September 2024 | 19:00 | Schumann-Haus Leipzig | Tickets: 30/20 EUR (reduced) plus advance booking fee

Program:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sonata in F major for violin and piano MWV Q26
Clara and Robert Schumann: Songs on poems by Heinrich Heine (version for violoncello and piano with recitation of the poems) from 6 Lieder op.13, "Myrthen" op. 25 and "Frauenliebe" op. 42 "Ich stand in dunklen Träumen", "Sie liebten sich beide", "Lotusblüten", "Du bist wie eine Blume", "Er, der Herrlichste von allen"
Pauline Viardot: "6 Morceaux" for violin and piano (selection)
Carl Reinecke: "Serenade" in A minor op. 126 No. 2 for piano trio

Violin: Tanja Becker-Bender, Tobias Feldmann, Sayako Kusaka | Cello: Peter Bruns, Arne Zeller | Piano: Jean-Paul Gasparian, Annegret Kuttner, Aleksandar Madžar

17 September 2024 | 18:00 | Alte Nikolaischule Leipzig | Tickets: 30/20 EUR (reduced) plus advance booking fee | Enjoy your evening after work at our concert evening including some culinary highlights!

Program:
Carl Maria von Weber: "Aufforderung zum Tanz" op. 65 (version for piano trio)
Giacomo Meyerbeer: "Cavatina" from the opera "Robert le Diable"
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: "Capriccio" in A minor op. 81 No. 3 for string quartet
Gabriel Fauré / André Messager: "Souvenirs de Bayreuth" - Persiflage (Fantaisie en forme de quadrille sur les thèmes favoris de L'anneau de Nibelung - R. Wagner - 1888) for piano four hands
Richard Wagner: I "Träume" (from the "Wesendonck-Lieder" WWV 91 No. 3) for strings/harp - II Sonata for piano A flat major WWV85 - A sonata for the album of Mrs. M.W. (Mathilde Wesendonck) - III Trauermusik after motifs from "Euryanthe" by C. M. von Weber WWV 73

Violin: Tanja Becker-Bender, Tobias Feldmann, Sayako Kusaka, Nathalie Schmalhofer | Viola: Lise Berthaud, Bennet Ortmann | Cello: Quirine Viersen, Arne Zeller | Piano: Jean-Paul Gasparian, Annegret Kuttner, Aleksandar Madžar

18 September 2024 | 19:00 | Bach-Museum Sommersaal | Tickets: 30/20 EUR (reduced) plus advance booking fee

Program:
André Caplet: "Conte fantastique" after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" for harp and string quartet
Richard Wagner: Albumblatt WWV 94 for string quartet - Into the album of Princess Metternich -
Claude Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp (1915) L.137
Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Violoncello M.73 - A la mémoire de Claude Debussy -
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: "Tema con variazioni" in E major op. 81 No. 1 for string quartet

Flute: Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren | Violin: Tanja Becker-Bender, Tobias Feldmann, Sayako Kusaka, Nathalie Schmalhofer | Viola: Lise Berthaud, Pauline Sachse, Bennet Ortmann | Cello: Peter Bruns, Quirine Viersen, Arne Zeller | Harp: Laia Barberà De Luna

19 September 2024 | 19:00 | Thomaskirche | Tickets: PC1: 30 EUR, PC2: 15 EUR plus advance booking fee

Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite for Orchestra No. 3 in D major BWV 1068 (original version)
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Serenade" from the Suite op. 16 for violoncello and orchestra
Gabriel Fauré: "Berceuse" op. 16 for violin and strings
Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto for 2 violas, strings and bc. TWV 52:G3
Hector Berlioz: "La Mort d'Ophélie" from "Tristia" op. 18 H.92 - Ballade after Shakespeare for violoncello and strings (arr. Ulrich Rüger)
Claude Debussy: "Clair de Lune" (from Suite Bergamasque L.75 No. 3) harp and strings
Maurice Ravel: „Kaddish“
Gabriel Fauré: "Après un rêve" op.7 No. 1
Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in B minor BWV 1067
Maurice Ravel: "Pavane pour une infante défunte" M.19 - à Madame la Princesse E. de Polignac -

Flute: Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren | Violin: Tanja Becker-Bender, Tobias Feldmann, Sayako Kusaka, Nathalie Schmalhofer | Viola: Lise Berthaud, Pauline Sachse, Bennet Ortmann | Cello: Peter Bruns, Quirine Viersen, Arne Zeller | Double bass: Benjamin Wand | Harp: Laia Barberà De Luna | Harpsichord: Bernadett Mészáros

20 September 2024 | 19:00 | Mendelssohn-Haus | Tickets: 30/20 EUR (reduced) plus advance booking fee

Program:
Clara Schumann: Three Romances for violin and piano op. 22
Carl Reinecke: "3 Fantasiestücke" op. 43 for viola and piano
Hector Berlioz: "Zaide" (Boléro from "Feuillets d'album" Op. 19/1 H.107B) version for flute, piano (and castanets)
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Trio op. 8
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: "The Evening Bell" for harp and piano

Flute: Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren | Violin: Tanja Becker-Bender, Tobias Feldmann | Viola: Lise Berthaud | Cello: Quirine Viersen | Harp: Laia Barberà De Luna | Piano: Jean-Paul Gasparian, Annegret Kuttner, Aleksandar Madžar

21 September 2024 | 19:00 | Grieg-Begegnungsstätte | Tickets: 30/20 EUR (reduced) plus advance booking fee

Program:
Lili Boulanger: "D'un Soir Triste" for piano trio
Charles Koechlin: "Chansons Bretonnes" op. 115 for violoncello and piano (selection)
Gabriel Fauré: Sonata for violin and piano no. 1 in A major op. 13
Nadia Boulanger: "Trois Pieces" for violoncello and piano
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor M.67

Violin: Tanja Becker-Bender, Tobias Feldmann, Sayako Kusaka | Cello: Peter Bruns, Quirine Viersen, Arne Zeller | Piano: Jean-Paul Gasparian, Annegret Kuttner, Aleksandar Madžar

22 September 2024 | 11:00 | Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" | Tickets: 30/20 EUR (reduced) plus advance booking fee

Program:
Gabriel Pierné: "Voyage au pays du Tendre" for flute, string trio and harp
Maurice Ravel: "Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré" for violin and piano M.74
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor op. 15
César Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor FWV 7

Flute: Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren | Violin: Tanja Becker-Bender, Tobias Feldmann, Sayako Kusaka, Nathalie Schmalhofer | Viola: Lise Berthaud, Pauline Sachse, Bennet Ortmann | Cello: Peter Bruns, Quirine Viersen, Arne Zeller | Harp: Laia Barberà De Luna | Piano: Jean-Paul Gasparian, Annegret Kuttner, Aleksandar Madžar