In the Early Music in Schwabing concert series, the Svapinga Consort regularly presents new programs featuring four hundred years worth of music. The 2020/21 season extends from dramatic compositions from the time of the French Enlightenment through to chamber music of German Romanticism. Audiences will be treated to many accomplished guest musicians including internationally renowned soprano Fanie Antonelou and the baritone and baroque theater specialist João Paixão. Let yourself be carried away by wonderful performances and (re)discover beloved masterpieces as well as less familiar musical gems in an exciting and groundbreaking season!
Friday, 23 July 2021
19:00 pm • Albert-Lempp-Saal, Kreuzkirche München
SUMMER CONCERT WEEKEND: UNE BELLE ÉPOQUE
French Salon Music for Oboe, Strings, and Piano
Lili BOULANGER (1893-1918): D’un matin de printemps (1917)
Gabriel PIERNÉ (1863-1937): Pièce en sol mineur, op. 6 (1883)
Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918): Sonate pour violoncelle, CD 144 (1916)
Lili BOULANGER (1893-1918): Nocturne et Cortège (1911/1914)
Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924): Trio pour piano, violon et violoncelle en ré mineur, op. 120 (1922)
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Maria Raffaele oboe
Florian Dantel violin
Anderson Fiorelli cello
Sofya Gandilyan piano
The first concert of our special “Musique des Lumières” summer concert weekend transforms the Albert-Lempp-Saal into an early 20th-century salon during the “beautiful era” (“Belle Époque”) in France when optimism, peace, and prosperity reigned, and scientific and cultural innovation raised human endeavors to new heights. Composers like Debussy, Pierné, Boulanger, and Fauré found ingenious ways to expand the 19th century’s Romantic language and break down the boundaries of musical expression.
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Sunday, 25 July 2021
11:15 am • Albert-Lempp-Saal, Kreuzkirche München
SUMMER CONCERT WEEKEND: LE SIÈCLE DES LUMIÈRES – GESTURE AND DRAMA
French Baroque Music for Baritone and Instruments
Louis Nicolas CLÉRAMBAULT (1676-1749): Pigmalion
André CAMPRA (1660-1744): Silène
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU (1683-1764): Thétis
Robert DE VISÉE (1650-1725): Excerpts from Pièces de théorbe et de luth
François CHAUVON (1700-1740): Excerpts from Tibiades
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João Luís Paixão baritone
Luis Martínez Pueyo traverso
Maria Raffaele oboe
Amy Shen violin
Shen-Ju Chang viola da gamba
Giulio Quirici theorbo
Robert Selinger harpsichord
Free admission, donations welcome!
Our last season concert transports the audience to mid-18th-century France, when the heady dreams of the Enlightenment mixed with the Sun King’s passionate embrace of theater and pageantry—and particular emphasis on gesture and rhetoric—to shape contemporary art forms like opera, ballet, and instrumental music. Here the Svapinga Consort joins forces with singer and actor João Luís Paixão to combine theatrically interpreted texts with secular cantatas and instrumental works by some of the greatest composers of the French Enlightenment: Rameau, Campra, Clerambault, de Visée, and Chauvon.
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PAST CONCERTS
Sunday, 15 November 2020
11:15 am • Albert-Lempp-Saal, Kreuzkirche München
“ONLY THOSE WHO KNOW LONGING…” – **Cancelled due to current Coronavirus Regulations**
Music for Music by Beethoven, Dussek, and their contemporaries for Soprano and Fortepiano
Free admission, donations welcome!
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Goethe-Lieder
Johann Ladislaus DUSSEK: Klaviermusik
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Fanie Antonelou Sopran
Sofya Gandilyan Hammerklavier
Free admission, donations welcome!
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Sunday, 17 January 2021
6:00 pm • Albert-Lempp-Saal, Kreuzkirche München
MIT BEETHOVEN INS NEUJAHR – **Cancelled due to current Coronavirus Regulations**
Chamber Music for Fortepiano and Winds
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN:
Trio No. 4 Op.11 in B-flat Major for Clarinet, Cello, and Fortepiano or Trio Op. 38 for Clarinet, Cello, and Fortepiano
Selection of movements from: Eroica Variationen, Op. 35 for Fortepiano
Quintet Op. 17 in E-flat Major for Winds and Fortepiano
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Maria Raffaele Oboe
N.N. Clarinet
N.N. Horn
N.N. Bassoon
Sofya Gandilyan Fortepiano
Free admission, donations welcome!
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Friday, 2 April 2021
3:00 pm • Albert-Lempp-Saal, Kreuzkirche München
GOOD FRIDAY CONCERT – **Cancelled due to current Coronavirus Regulations**
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Maria Raffaele Oboe
Sofya Gandilyan Harpsichord
and others
Free admission, donations welcome!
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