EVENT:
The Piano Septet
by the Chamber Music Society of Colombo:
The
Chamber Music Society of Colombo sponsored by Fairway Holdings and in
association with the Goethe-Institut will present, 'The Piano Septet' at
the Goethe-Institut, a chamber music concert, Colombo 7, on Sunday,
October 18, 2015 at 7.00 p.m.
Tickets available at the venue on a first come first served basis,
are priced at Rs. 750. The evening will feature Ramya de Livera Perera,
piano; Lakshman Joseph de Saram & Othman H Majid violins; Avanti Perera,
viola; Saranga A Cooray, cello; Naveen Fernando, trumpet; Surekha
Amarasinghe, flute; Ananda Premasiri, clarinet and Nilanthi Weerakoon,
double bass.
The Piano Septet is an unusual collection of instruments, compared to
the standard Piano Trio and Piano Quartet, which have already been
featured in the Society's Goethe-Institute series. Septets were designed
for groups of professional as well as aristocratic musicians for
performance in residences of the European nobility at musical soirees
and fund raisers.
The Bratislava-born virtuoso pianist Johann N. Hummel (a student of
Beethoven, and a mentor to Czerny, who in turn taught Liszt); wrote two
of them. The second of these is the brilliantly tuneful "Military
Septet", scored for piano, flute, trumpet, clarinet, violin, cello and
double bass, of October 1829. Just over 50 years later (1880), the
French composer Camille Saint-Säens, a famed organist and prodigious
pianist, no doubt inspired by Hummel's ebullient work, premiered a
delightfully mellifluous, yet dramatically inclined Septet for piano,
trumpet, two violins, viola, cello and double bass.
The juxtaposition of these two connected works, uncommon by
themselves due to the combination of instruments, is a rarity; and to
have them both in one evening promises to be a treat indeed. Book your
tickets for an extremely rare, and most rewarding evening of memorable
Chamber Music. |