7. Chamber Music Concert
In the Movies
Nino Rota Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
Ralph Vaughan Williams Phantasy quintet
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Piano quintet in E major Op. 15
Nino Rota had every reason to be happy in 1973 – at least for a short time: his music for Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Godfather was initially nominated for an Oscar, but was suddenly removed from the list. During this time, the Italian composer wrote his clarinet trio, which shows him from both a romantic, yearning and humorous side. Rota did win the Oscar two years later. The melodic arcs in the Phantasy Quintet by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams are shrouded in mist. These elegiac sounds blend 16th and 17th century idioms with moments of English folk song. Just as Vaughan Williams transformed his most successful film music for Scott of the Antarctic into his seventh symphony, Erich Wolfgang Korngold incorporated music from many films into his concert music. The sonorous passion so typical of his style also pervades his large-scale Piano Quintet in E major op. 15, where exuberant intensity and eruptions of sound alternate with the most delicate lyricism and airy sentiment in the smallest of spaces.
Ralph Vaughan Williams Phantasy quintet
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Piano quintet in E major Op. 15
Nino Rota had every reason to be happy in 1973 – at least for a short time: his music for Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Godfather was initially nominated for an Oscar, but was suddenly removed from the list. During this time, the Italian composer wrote his clarinet trio, which shows him from both a romantic, yearning and humorous side. Rota did win the Oscar two years later. The melodic arcs in the Phantasy Quintet by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams are shrouded in mist. These elegiac sounds blend 16th and 17th century idioms with moments of English folk song. Just as Vaughan Williams transformed his most successful film music for Scott of the Antarctic into his seventh symphony, Erich Wolfgang Korngold incorporated music from many films into his concert music. The sonorous passion so typical of his style also pervades his large-scale Piano Quintet in E major op. 15, where exuberant intensity and eruptions of sound alternate with the most delicate lyricism and airy sentiment in the smallest of spaces.
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With Frank Bunselmeyer, Doris Erdmann, Alexandra Taktikos, Amelie Wünsche, Daniel Schwartz, Martha Casleanu-Windhagauer, Laurens Groll, Zoltan Paulich et al.
Piano Jens Niemeyer, Sonia Achkar
Piano Jens Niemeyer, Sonia Achkar
May 2026
7. Chamber Music Concert
Wed
20
19:30
Liederhalle, Mozartsaal
Liederhalle, Mozartsaal
16/7 €
Tickets available from presale start
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