New Year’s concert Klassiek op Zuid (5)

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A concert with the motto “You only live once” or in German “Man lebt nur einmal!”:
music embedded in a narrative in which a number of well-known composers look back on their lives.

Peter Vliegenthart – storytelling and clarinet
Miranda Rademaker – violin
Richard van Calcar – violin
Agneska Tonko – viola
Siem Huijsman – cello

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All the works are arrangements for string quartet (and clarinet [Man lebt our einmal!])
except for the movements of Beethoven’s string quartet op.135.

Camille Saint-Saëns  (1835-1921)

Danse Macabre, op.40 (1874)

Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899)

An der schönen blauen Donau (1866)

Ouverture to Die Fledermaus (premiered 1874)

Man lebt nur einmal! (1855)

Radetzky March (premiered 1848)

Johannes Brahms  (1833-1897)

The Hungarian Dance no.5 (1869)

Wiegenlied (1868)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Ode an die Freude (1824)

Für Elise (published in 1867)

Opening theme of symphony no. 5 in c minor op.67 (1804-08)

String quartet in F major op.135 (1826), parts of