Accordo: Romantic String Sextets (February 6th, 7:30 PM)

Minneapolis

Accordo: Romantic String Sextets

» February 6th, 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Location: Christ Church Lutheran, Minneapolis

» Bands:

Kate Nordstrum Projects, Northrop Concerts & Lectures, and The Schubert Club present Accordo: Season 3

Feb. 6 program includes:
Strauss: Capriccio, Op. 85
Schoenberg: Verklrte Nacht Transfigured Night, Op. 4
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence in d minor, Op. 70
with Rebecca Albers, viola

Tickets and more information: http://www.schubert.org/concerts/11-12/accordo.php

Arnold Schoenberg's lush and moving early masterpiece 'Transfigured Night,' inspired by a dark Romantic poem by Richard Dehmel and written shortly before his immersion into serial or twelve-tone music, is centered between two other seminal works for string sextet. Richard Strauss' gorgeous curtain opener for his final opera Capriccio opens Accordo's new series at the architecturally stunning Christ Church Lutheran, and Tchiakovsky's brilliant 'Souvenir de Florence' closes the program with all the unbridled passion and Russian folk melodies one expects from the composer of the Nutcracker.

Accordo, established in 2009, is a Minnesota-based chamber group made up of some of the very best instrumentalists in the country, eager to share their love of classical and contemporary chamber music in intimate and unique performance spaces. Its 2011/12 season will be presented by Kate Nordstrum Projects, Northrop Concerts & Lectures and The Schubert Club at the National Historic Landmark Christ Church Lutheran, one of the Twin Cities' great architectural treasures designed by the esteemed architect Eliel Saarinen and his son Eero Saarinen.

Accordo includes SPCO principal players Steve Copes, Ruggero Allifranchini, Maiya Papach, and Ron Thomas and Minnesota Orchestra principal cellist Tony Ross. This season also includes guest artists Rebecca Albers, Ian Ding, Burt Hara and Erin Keefe.