En vogue: "Notturno" chamber concert at the Kunstgewerbemuseum on 27 November Works by Nielsen and Glasunow at the House of Art, Fashion and Design
Press release from 11/24/2015
On 27 November, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will open the sixth season of their joint chamber concert series "Notturno" at the Museum of Decorative Arts. The delightful combination of a night-time concert with musicians from the DSO and a guided tour of the exhibition rooms offers the opportunity to explore the museum, which reopened a year ago after extensive refurbishment, in an atmospheric setting. The Museum of Decorative Arts is the oldest of its kind in Germany and houses an extensive fashion gallery alongside important artefacts of European arts and crafts and design. Before the concert begins, Lothar Lambacher, deputy director of the museum, will give an introduction to the collection.
The suite 'Cinq Novelettes' by Russian composer Alexander Glazunov evokes musical fashions, bringing different musical traditions to life in the five movements, such as Spanish rhythms, Hungarian melodies, a lively waltz, Russian melancholy and mysterious orientalisms. As part of the "Notturno" chamber concert, DSO musicians Uta Fiedler-Reetz, Bertram Hartling, Henry Pieper and Claudia Benker build a striking bridge to the exhibits in the Museum of Decorative Arts with Glasunov's multi-faceted string quartet. The programme will be complemented by the String Quartet in F minor op. 5 by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen, who is being celebrated this year on the occasion of his 150th birthday.
In 2010, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin created the chamber concert series 'Notturno', an event format that combines high-quality chamber music with a night-time visit to the National Museums in Berlin. The late-night concerts have since become a crowd-puller and are regularly sold out. Over the course of the season, the musicians of the DSO will also be performing at the Museum Berggruen at Charlottenburg Palace (19 February 2016) and the Altes Museum on Museum Island (3 June 2016).
Further link
- Chamber concert series "Notturno"
- Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin