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BE RGE N INTE RN AT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2016
FOU N DAT I ON S
FOU N DAT ION S
B E RG E N IN T E RN AT ION A L
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H Å KO N SH A L L E N
DAT E/ T I M E
Wednesday 1 June
at 19:30
D U RAT IO N
1:40 including
interval
OT H ER
Introduction in
Norwegian by
Annabel Guaita
at 18:55
T IC KET
Standard: 420
Under 30: 150
Festival Card:
30 % discount
The
Trondheim
Soloists
and Truls Mørk
The start of a collaboration between
the star cellist and the renowned
chamber orchestra.
Truls Mørk is looking forward to performing
with the Trondheim Soloists, something he has
done only once before. This Bergen International
Festival concert marks the start of a longer collaboration. Among the works played by Truls Mørk
are two Cello Concertos by Luigi Boccherini.
‘Boccherini was the first person to elicit the
high notes from the cello, paving the way for
the cello as an attractive solo instrument. His
style is distinctively personal characterised by
elegance, virtuosity and beautiful melody lines
with a tinge of melancholy. Boccherini was a child
prodigy, and composed the two cello concertos I
shall perform, as a teenager,’ Truls Mørk explains.
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When Truls Mørk was a soloist in the anniversary concert of the Bergen Philharmonic
Orchestra earlier this year, a Bergen newspaper
critic wrote: ‘He has a special ability to make the
cello sing, particularly in the highest registers
(…) the audience gets veritably sucked down
on to the stage.’
Truls Mørk, who was in 2002 the first Norwegian
to win a Grammy award, has a long international
career. In autumn 2015 he made a recording
with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo,
and his programme for spring 2016 includes
concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic and Los
Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras. He is currently Artist in Residence with the Radio France
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Truls Mørk cello
Trondheimsolistene
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H Å KON SH A L L E N
DAT E / T IME
Friday 3 June
at 19:30
DU RAT ION
1:30 including
interval
OT H E R
Introduction
in Norwegian by
Annabel Guaita
at 18:55
Standard: 400
Under 30: 150
Festival Card:
30 % discount
Ballade, Op. 24
LUIGI BOCCHERINI (1743–1805)
Cello Concerto in G major, G 480
Cello Concerto in D major, G 479
IGOR STRAVINSKIJ (1882–1971)
Sponsored by Statoil
#FE STSPILLEN E16
and Birgitte
Christensen
T IC K E T
EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907)
Apollon Musagète
The
Vertavo
String
Quartet
Sponsored by
DNV GL
A dramatic disruption and a pearl
from Mozart.
The year 1908 involved great upheavals for
Schönberg, both artistically and personally. His
wife Mathilde was having an affair, and Schönberg
was troubled with jealousy when he resumed work
on his second String Quartet. In the later movements he experimented with atonality, starting a
new direction for his music. Incidentally, he also
wrote in a soprano voice part. He looked to the
works of the poet Stefan George for inspiration,
which he found in themes of betrayed love and a
yearning for death. Never before had Schönberg
composed music of such intensity.
In this concert it is the soprano Birgitte Christensen
who is devoured by the shadows. The Vertavo
String Quartet also performs Mozart’s ‘Spring’
Quartet in G major, the first of six dedicated to
Joseph Haydn, who is considered the father of the
string quartet form. A light, elegant melodic line
appears in various variants, contrasting sharply
with Schoenberg’s music.
The Vertavo Quartet has since its inception over
thirty years ago won numerous awards and made
many critically acclaimed recordings. The quartet
has appeared at the Bergen International Festival
on many occasions, often collaborating with classical soloists such as Leif Ove Andsnes but also
joining projects in other genres, teaming up with
Hot Club de Norvège, Anne Grete Preus and a-ha.
Vertavo String Quartet
Birgitte Christensen soprano
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (1874–1951)
String Quartet no. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 10
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
String Quartet no. 14 in G major “Spring”, KV 387
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