3rd Chamber Concert
Oskar Böhme: Brass Sextet in E-flat Minor op. 30 / Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Sonata in D Minor op. 40,1 / Igor Stravinsky: Octet for Wind Instruments
Concert
Alter Saal
Alter Saal
Oskar Böhme: Brass Sextet in E-flat Minor op. 30
Trumpets, Cornet
Horn
Trombone
Maria Mertes
Tuba
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Sonata in D Minor op. 40,1
Bassoon
Violoncello
Igor Stravinsky: Octet for Wind Instruments
Flute
Bassoon
Hitomi Wilkening
Sophia Mindt
Clarinet
Trumpet
Trombone
Maria Mertes
Marek Janicki
Igor Stravinsky composed the Octet for Wind Instruments in 1923. The Paris premiere audience had expected wild music, but found a sober classicist: icy silence after the premiere. Stravinsky said of his work, which has long since become a classic, that his octet should sound »dry, cool, clear and sparkling like champagne«.
The composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier lived in France from 1689 to 1755. He had a very successful career in Paris as a »gallant composer«. He wrote the varied Sonata in D Minor op. 40,1 for bassoon and violoncello in 1732.
The late Romantic brass sextet by Oskar Böhme, who was a trumpeter at the St. Petersburg Opera before falling victim to the Stalin regime, opens the programme.