Programme:
Johann Wilhelm Hertel: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in D major, K. 381/123a
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Prelude in B-flat minor, BWV 867
Johann Sebastian Bach: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th movements
Johann Sebastian Bach,  arr. György Kurtág: O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, BWV deest
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106, 2^nd movement (a)
Georg Friedrich Händel: “Let the Bright Seraphim”, Israelite Woman’s aria from Samson

Every edition of the Ljubljana Festival includes numerous chamber concerts of the highest calibre. This year a group of musicians and teachers from some of the most important music education institutions in Europe will return to Ljubljana. Oboist Emanuel Abbühl is a professor both in Basel and in Mannheim, where oboist Seung Eun Lee has also taught since 2009. Trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich and pianist Eriko Takezawa both teach in Karlsruhe, Madrid and Berlin, while pianist Kimiko Imani likewise teaches in the German capital. Alongside a selection of well-known masterpieces, their programme on this occasion will include two very important vocal works originally written for soprano, solo trumpet and strings but presented here in new arrangements for trumpet, oboe and piano that will offer a fascinating reinterpretation of these significant works. We will hear the galant-style Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major by Johann Wilhelm Hertel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s charming Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in D major, Robert Schumann’s romantic Fantasiestücke for oboe d’amore and piano, several works by the baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach (including an arrangement by contemporary Hungarian composer György Kurtág) and, to end with, the famous aria “Let the Bright Seraphim” from the opera Samson by George Frideric Handel.