Concert series offers chamber music treats
Concert series offers chamber music treats
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
A series of five chamber music concerts starting in the city tonight (Thursday) will offer fans a rare chance to hear the period music performed by distinguished musicians.
Performed between Nov. 4 and Feb. 24, the concerts would feature subtle interplay between performers, plus the intimate atmosphere a small ensemble created, cellist and event spokesman Leonard van Hien said. These quintessential features of chamber music made it a pleasurable and rewarding experience, he said.
Although most works performed in the series will be mainstream 19th-century European works, the concert will also include lesser-known but important works.
"This concert is organized by the artists, with the repertoire bringing together string players, pianists and singers, all at affordable prices," van Hien said.
All but one of the concerts would be at the Erasmus Huis, South Jakarta, chosen because of its central location, excellent grand piano and superb acoustics.
IG Bagus Wiswakarma, regarded by many as the leading classical violinist in Indonesia today, and the director of a Jakarta many music school, would be highlight of the performance, he said.
A special treat is on offer in the third concert, on Dec. 30, when Jean-Paul Minali-Bella will play the arpegina. The latest member of the string family, the arpegina is rather like a large viola but with a distinctive, asymmetrically shaped body.
It has a pitch and timbre that lies between that of the cello, viola and viola de gamba. Minali-Bella will perform Indonesian composer Slamet Sjukur's work Dedicace 1 for solo arpegina.
in box: The series in brief:
String quartet Nov. 4 -- Beethoven, Ravel Erasmus Huis, Jl. Rasuna Said, South Jakarta
Cello and piano Dec. 2 -- Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn Erasmus Huis
Arpegina and piano Dec. 30 -- Bach, Schubert, Sjukur, Bacri, Marais Auditorium, S. Widjojo Center, Jl. Sudirman, South Jakarta
Viola/Piano quintet Jan. 6, 2005 -- Brahms, Mendelssohn Erasmus Huis
Soprano, piano, clarinet, strings Feb. 24 -- Schubert, Beethoven, Villa-Lobos, Poulenc, Satoh
Tickets will be sold at the door: adults Rp 50,000, students Rp 20,000 per concert