Concert in the Interplay of Cultures “The Four Seasons in Brandenburg”

Thu 11 Aug 2016, 8 pm
Goethe Institut

From Goethe Institut:

In line with the Vietnam Connection Music Festival, the Goethe-Institut presents compositions from the baroque era.

With the performance of:
Zhan Shu, Chuong Vu, Le Minh Hien Violin | Yi-Wen Chao Viola | Bronwyn Banerdt Cello | John Moore Contrabass | Le Thu Huong Fulte | Elliot Figg Cembalo | Pham Vu Thien Bao Viola | Lan Jiang Cello

In collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Hanoi, the Vietnam Connection Music Festival brings international and Vietnamese musicians together on stage. The musical performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 5” and “The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi revive the sounds of late baroque.

The 5th Brandenburg Concerto will be presented as part of a collection of six concerts composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The 5th concerto is characterized by the cadenzas of harpsichord, flute and violin in accompaniment of a string orchestra.

The violin concert “The Four Seasons” is a musical portrait of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The most well-known composition by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) is one of the first musical works of all times that contains narrative elements in the form of poems.

Since 2015 the Vietnam Connection Music Festival enables an intercultural exchange of artists by bringing together accomplished international musicians with outstanding Vietnamese artists in order to perform and to teach classical music in Vietnam. This year, musicians from Vietnam, China, Taiwan and the United States join the concert at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi.

PROGRAM

Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (1720)

I. Allegro
II. Affettuoso
III. Allegro

With the performance of:
Chuong Vu | Violin (Solo)
Le Thu Huong | Flute (Solo)
Elliot Figg | Harpsichord (Solo)
Zhan Shu | Viola
Yi-Wen Chao | Violin
Bronwyn Banerdt | Cello
John Moore | Double Bass

Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Op. 8 (1723)

Spring
I. Allegro
II. Largo e pianissimo sempre
III. Allegro pastorale

Summer
I. Allegro non molto
II. Adagio e piano – Presto e forte
III. Presto

Autumm
I. Allegro
II. Adagio molto
III. Allegro

Winter
I. Allegro non molto
II. Largo
III. Allegro

With the performance of:
Zhan Shu | Violin (Solo)
Chuong Vu | Violin 1
Le Minh Hien | Violin 2
Yi-Wen Chao | Viola
Bronwyn Banerdt | Cello
John Moore | Double Bass
Elliot Figg | Harpsichord

Free Admission

UPDATE: Free tickets from 08.08.2016, 9 am at the Goethe-Institut.

Listen to Vilvadi’s “Winter” in the performance of violist Julia Fischer here:

[youtube width=”700″ height=”393″]https://youtu.be/vUKEED3CIxA[/youtube]

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