RE-FOLKING VIENNESE CLASSICS, WITH ZRI QUINTET
Performers
- ZRI Quintet:
- Max Baillie
- violin / guest director
- Iris Pissaride
- hammer dulcimer
- Jon Banks
- accordion
- Ben Harlan
- clarinet
- Matthew Sharp
- cello
- Britten Sinfonia
- Agata Zając
- conductor
Programme
- Programme to include:
- Schubert arr. ZRI
- Auf der Brücke D853
- Trad arr. ZRI
- Cristinel
- Beethoven arr. Tchaikovsky/Schneiderheinze
- Kreutzer Sonata: movement i
- Brahms arr. ZRI
- Adagio from Clarinet Quintet Op.115
- Brahms / Béla Kéler arr. ZRI
- Bártfai Emlék Csárdás
- Webern
- Langsamer Satz
- Haydn arr. ZRI
- String Quartet Op. 76 No. 2: movement iv
- H. Ritter/G. Boulanger arr. ZRI
- Rote Rosen
- Schubert arr. ZRI
- Scherzo and Trio from String Quintet in C
- and traditional folk pieces from central and eastern Europe
Inspired by a Viennese pub visited by many 19th-century composers for the folk performances it hosted, Britten Sinfonia and ZRI perform classical music re-imagined for orchestra and folk band.
After the toils of daytime, Schubert and Brahms would often visit Vienna’s Red Hedgehog Tavern, Zum Roten Igel (ZRI), to hear breathtakingly emotional and virtuosic folk music.
Enjoy an evening of “re-folked” music by composers who adored the traditional songs and instrumental music of central and eastern Europe, with arrangements of chamber works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Webern for orchestra and a quintet of clarinet, cello, violin, accordion and hammer dulcimer.
Watch ZRI in action
The Norwich performance is dedicated to the memory of Richard Somerford.
This concert will last approximately 95 minutes including an interval.