A Flower for Tabea
Saturday, January 30
120 minutes (including a pause)
CHF 60 | 45
Violist Tabea Zimmermann has played a major role in inspiring new works for her instrument, including through her collaboration with György Kurtág, who dedicated one of his compositions to her under the title «… a flower for Tabea …» long before Kurtág, Brahms’s friend Joseph Joachim composed Hebrew Melodies for viola and piano, while in the early 20th century Frank Bridge went so far as to combine two violas in his composition Lament. Two violas also form the inner voices of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Quintet in B-flat major. With Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Guy Ben-Ziony (viola), Benedek Horváth (piano), and the Gringolts Quartet.
Programme
Joseph Joachim (1831–1907)
Hebrew Melodies after Impressions of Byron’s Songs op. 9 for viola and piano (1855)
György Kurtág (b. 1926)
From Games, Signs & Messages for solo viola
«In nomine – all ongharese»
«… eine Blume für Tabea …»
«Kromatikus feleselös»
Frank Bridge (1879–1941)
Lament for two violas (1911)
Menachem Wiesenberg (b. 1950)
Monodialogue. A Fantasy for viola solo (1999)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Quintet No. 2 in B-flat Major for two violins, two violas and violoncello, op. 87 (1845)
Artists
Tabea Zimmermann Viola
Guy Ben-Ziony Viola
Benedek Horváth Piano
Gringolts Quartet
Ilya Gringolts Violin
Anahit Kurtikyan Violin
Silvia Simionescu Viola
Claudius Herrmann Cello