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
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 an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London and a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Basel and the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts. Oboist Seung Eun Lee has likewise taught at the latter institution since 2009. Trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich and pianist Eriko Takezawa are both employed at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, while pianist Kimiko Imani teaches in Berlin, both at the University of the Arts and at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. Their programme on this occasion largely focuses on music from the German-speaking world, including 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 Fantasiestücke for bassoon 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.