Vantage Music in association with HKUST, Center for the Arts 香港科技大學藝術中心 will present to you a three-concert series “With a Clear Voices, Sound the Fiddle Strings”.
This Czech themed concert series will focus on masterpieces by Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) and Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), two influential composers of the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Concert I: My Song Resounds, a Love’s Psalm
Programme:
Czech Concert Series -With a Clear Voice, Sound the Fiddle Strings
The title of the fifth song of Dvořák’s Gypsy Melodies, op. 55
Concert I: My Song Resounds, a Love’s Psalm
The title of the first song of Dvořák’s Gypsy Melodies, op. 55
Dvořák – Gypsy Melodies (Cigánské Melodie), op. 55 (1880)
Janáček- In the Mist (1912) for solo piano
Janáček – Presto for cello and piano, JW 7/6 (1910)
Janáček – Fairy Tale (Pohádka) for cello and piano, JW 7/5 (1910)
Dvořák – String Quartet No. 12 in F Major “American”, op. 96 (1893)
Carol Lin, mezzo soprano; Alexander Wong, piano; Cindy Ho, piano; KaLap Wong, cello; Romer String Quartet 羅曼四重奏
Date: Thu 16 Feb
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Shaw Auditorium of HKUST
Concert II: And that is why music is so dangerous
Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata (1889), chapter XXIII
Dvořák- Piano Quintet in A Major, op. 81 (1887)
Janáček -String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata”, JW 7/8 (1923)
Romer String Quartet 羅曼四重奏, Cindy Ho, piano
Date: Mon 5 Jun
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Sway Recital Hall
Concert III: To dance attendance as a faithful shadow of my Kamilka and serve my queen
(Letter from Janáček to Kamila Stösslová, written in Luhačovice, 17–18 July 1928)
Janáček – Sonata for Violin and Piano, JW 7/7 (1914), arranged for clarinet and piano by Shirley Brill (b. 1982)
Janáček- Concertino, JW 7/11 (1925) for Two violins, viola, horn, clarinet, bassoon and piano
Janáček – String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”, JW 7/13 (1928)
Andrew Au Yeung, Horn; Linus Fung, clarinet; Tak Wing Leung, bassoon; Romer String Quartet 羅曼四重奏, Cindy Ho, piano
Date: Tue 31 Oct
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Shaw Auditorium of HKUST
Enquiries/ticketing: artsctr@ust.hk
