At this year's ‘Music in the Houses of the City’ festival, Lena Kravets and Tobias Kassung will present their new programme ‘Nachtstücke – zwischen Traum und Tango’ (Nocturnes between Dream and Tango). In keeping with the festival, they will focus on music that was cultivated with great artistry in the bourgeois salons of the 19th century.
Romantic nocturnes and adagios by Burgmüller, Glinka and Beethoven perfectly express the intimate sound of the cello and guitar. With Kassung's own new piece and Raffaele Bellafrente's brilliant tango, the duo brings to life not only the contemplative side of the ‘night pieces’ but also the exuberant nightlife. And everything culminates in the ‘Quatre rêves’ by Parisian composer Mathias Duplessy, who has set the exuberant nightlife of the French metropolis to rousing music in his four musical dreams.
Programme: Frédéric Burgmüller (1806-1874): Deux Nocturnes; Michail I. Glinka (1804-1857): Erinnerung; Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Après un Rêve, op. 7 No. 1; Tobias Kassung (*1977): Capriccio à la lumière du sud, op. 16; Raffaele Bellafronte (*1961): Tango; Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Adagio cantabile (aus der Klaviersonate Nr. 8 op. 13); Ernest Bloch (1880-1959): Prayer (Nr. 1 aus „From Jewish Life”); Traditionell aus Palästina: Lamma Bada Yatathana; Mathias Duplessy (*1972): Sonate pour violoncelle et guitare en quatre rêves
