Classical music: Music in the Old Rectory

Thursday, 25 April 2024

Pure Beethoven - Sonatas and Piano Pieces

Matthias Kirschnereit, piano

"MAIKE HELBIG "

Matthias Kirschnereit is one of the most outstanding pianists in Germany. He now also passes on his talent as a professor at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre. Born in Detmold, the Echo Classic prizewinner particularly enjoys exploring new musical territory.

"I am looking for the human message," says Matthias Kirschnereit. "The composers have encoded so much: pain, longing, jubilation, triviality and despair. My admiration grows the more familiar they become to me. I live, feel and suffer with them."

In this way, he creates a rollercoaster of emotions at the piano with "pure Beethoven" not only in the Moonlight Sonata, but also in the Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, op. 31 No. 2, which is also known as "The Tempest".

Thursday, 30 May 2024

Reinhold Quartet

Dietrich Reinhold, 1st violin
Tobias Haupt, 2nd violin
Norbert Tunze, viola
Dorothée Erbiner, violoncello

For years, the Reinhold Quartet, consisting of musicians from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, has been a regular guest in Vellern. The quartet was founded in 1996 with the desire to make music together and to follow their own musical paths.

To mark the 200th anniversary of Carl Reinecke's birth, the Reinhold Quartett takes an in-depth look at the 10th Gewandhauskapellmeister (1860-1895), whose achievements include the training of numerous world-class composers and the premiere of many works by composers such as Brahms and Grieg at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. The programme includes string quartets by Carl Reinecke and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.