Programme:
Johann Wilhelm Hertel: Trumpet Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major
Olivier Messiaen: Interstellar Call from From the Canyons to the Stars…
Johann Peter Pixis: Grand Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Op. 35
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Gustav Mahler: Where the Fair Trumpets Sound from The Boy’s Magic Horn
Gustav Mahler, arr. Alisa Kratzer: Blumine from Symphony No. 1 in D major “Titan”
Carl Reinecke: Trio for Piano, Oboe, and Horn, Op. 188

Thursday’s concert in Križevniška Church will feature a varied programme of chamber music by different composers. In the first half we will listen to a concerto by Johann Wilhelm Hertel, who was a prolific composer in multiple genres; a movement for trumpet solo from an orchestral work by Olivier Messiaen; and the sentimental and lyrical sonatas of the salon music author Johann Peter Pixis. After the interval the concert will continue with pieces by Gustav Mahler and Carl Reinecke, a composer whose models were Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann. These works will be performed by the oboist Emanuel Abbühl, whom critics have described as “a master of his instrument and a musician par excellence”, trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich, who since winning second prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 1986 has been an extremely active performer of both early music and new music and has taught at masterclasses throughout the world, and hornist Radovan Vlatković, one of the 300 distinguished musicians to be named an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music. They will be accompanied on the piano by Eriko Takezawa, a specialist in solo piano, piano duo and chamber music; Kimiko Imani, whose artistic development shows the influence of her studies with Anatol Ugorski; and Danijel Detoni, a committed chamber musician who teaches at the Academy of Music in Zagreb.