'Notturno' - Summer open air in the garden of the Museum Berggruen A trio from the DSO will play works by Bruch, Françaix, Mozart and Smit on 16 June
Press release from 06/09/2017
The chamber concert series 'Notturno' will conclude its season in the open air on 16 June. An ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will perform trio compositions for clarinet, viola and piano by Max Bruch, Jean Françaix, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Leo Smit in the garden of the Museum Berggruen. The curator of the museum, Dr Felicia Rappe, will welcome the guests at 9 p.m., and from 9.15 p.m. the collection can be explored in short guided tours before the open-air concert, which will last around an hour, begins at 10 p.m.
The musicians of the DSO open the summer concert evening with Mozart's famous E flat major trio. The Viennese classicist was supposedly inspired to write this cheerful, lively and intimate piece during an evening of skittles in a social gathering, which earned it the nickname 'Kegelstatt'. Mozart set a precedent with the unusual scoring for clarinet, viola and piano, as the rest of the programme proves. For example, the Dutch composer Leo Smit composed a trio based on the French impressionist musical language of Debussy and Milhaud. Excerpts from Max Bruch's famous 'Eight Pieces', on the other hand, include some highly romantic movements that the teacher at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin once wrote for his son Max Felix, a talented clarinettist. With a trio by the French composer Jean Françaix, the ensemble concludes the evening and thus the seventh year of the successful 'Notturno' concerts.
Together with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin launched this extraordinary chamber concert series in the 2010|2011 season. Since then, it has enjoyed great popularity and the events are regularly sold out. The special format attracts musical night owls to places of art where DSO ensembles enter into a dialogue with spaces and exhibits. In the 2017|2018 season, the 'Notturno' concerts will continue at the Neues Museum (17 November 2017), in the recently opened Wilhelm-von-Humboldt-Saal in the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden (23 February 2018) and in the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection (15 June 2018).
'Notturno' - Nocturnal Chamber Concert
in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Fri 16 June 2017 | Garden of the Museum Berggruen (Open Air)
8.45 pm Admission | 9.15 pm Short guided tour | 10.00 pm Concert
ENSEMBLE OF THE DSO
Anna Bortolin viola | Bernhard Nusser clarinet | Wolfgang Kühnl piano
W. A. Mozart Trio in E flat major for clarinet, viola and piano KV 498 'Kegelstatt'
Leo Smit Trio for clarinet, viola and piano
Max Bruch Excerpts from 'Eight Pieces' for clarinet, viola and piano
Jean Françaix Trio for clarinet, viola and piano
The concert is already sold out. If the weather is fine, remaining tickets for the open-air event are still available at the box office.
Venue: Garden of the Museum Berggruen at Charlottenburg Palace Visitor entrance: Schloßstraße 1, 14059 Berlin
Please order press tickets (for reporting purposes only) by calling 030. 20 29 87 535.