Dear friends,
Spring is here at last! We're looking forward to more sun and warmer temperatures!
After having given a few lovely concerts in these last Winter months, we're really excited to be starting out on our upcoming Bach adventure about which we'd like to tell you more in this newsletter.
First of all, our last concerts:
In February we performed in the beautiful Kasteel Groeneveld in Baarn: a full hall with a wonderfully attentive and enthusiastic audience who we introduced to our, by now, beloved Celebrating Women! programme of women composers.
In the middle of March we had an early start on a Sunday morning travelling to the charming Kapel op ‘t Rijsselt in Eefde where we also received a warm welcome and played the glorious Hungarian Rhapsody programme with works by Haydn, Weiner, Kodály en Dohnányi.
Two concerts we won't forget in a hurry!
And now more about our new project: Visions of Goldberg - the Goldberg Variations of J.S. Bach, in a collaboration with digital artist, Lisette Huizenga.
The Goldberg Variations are made up of an aria, 30 variations, which come full circle with the aria repeated at the end.
Lisette is creating 32 3D animation films, inspired by the aria and each variation. These will eventually be edited so that the images flow smoothly from one to the next. To the viewer it will play as one uninterrupted whole, a stop motion film: an image filmed from one camera that continuously transforms itself. During the concert, the images will be projected as a moving decor on a screen of at least 4 by 3 metres, thus adding an extra visual dimension to this masterpiece.
The whole is also made as a nod towards the work of M.C. Escher. Escher, not only because he had a great love for the music of Bach, and similarities can be found between both their work, but also because 2023 is 125 years since the birth of Escher: an important anniversary that is being celebrated throughout the city of The Hague this year.
Lisette will, however, be creating her own world and together we hope to create our own personal and completely new experience.
https://www.lisettehuizenga.com/
Last week we had two incredibly inspiring and intense sessions working on the Bach with Richard Egarr; harpsichordist, baroque specialist and permanent guest conductor of, among others, the Residentie Orkest. We can't wait to continue working with him and diving even deeper into the music!
https://www.intermusica.com/artist/Richard-Egarr
*On Thursday June 8 we will give our first performance of our project Visions of Goldberg in the Azijnfabriek in Den Bosch at 12.30 p.m.
https://www.kamermuziekshertogenbosch.nl/
*We will also be performing Visions of Goldberg in the weekend of 17/ 18 June in the Kunstmuseum, The Hague as part of a big Escher birthday celebratory weekend when events are being organised throughout the city at various museums and locations. We hope to be able to give more specific information in a follow up mail soon!
Before then, we have two concerts coming up in April:
*This coming Sunday 2 April we will play the Goldberg Variations at 3 p.m. in an hour long concert in the Bonifatius Church in Rijwijk. This will be just the beautiful music of Bach, without film!
http://www.muziekindebonifatius.nl/
*At 8 p.m. on Tuesday 25 April we will perform with Pauline Oostenrijk in Kasteel Duivenvoorde. The programme will be Mozart and his contemporaries: wonderful oboe quartets by Johann Christian Bach, Kramář and Cannabich, and, of course, Mozart's famous oboe quartet. In addition, you can hear an unfinished Allegro for string trio, again by Mozart, and Pauline will play a Fantasia by Telemann for oboe solo.
https://www.kunstkringduivenvoorde.nl/2023-the-hague-string-trio/
We hope to see you at one of our concerts!
Best wishes from The Hague String Trio,
Justyna Briefjes, Julia Dinerstein and Miriam Kirby
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