Sunday Matinees at the Liechtenstein Museum
Concert overview

Art, Music and Fine Food

The repertoire at the Palais Liechtenstein has a broad variety of musical works. This year's repertoire is:

2011

6 February 2011: Italian Quartets.

The Haydn Quartett Berlin performs string quartets by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini and the Italian Serenade by Hugo Wolf.

13 February 2011: String Sextet of the Gustav Mahler YOUTH orchestra.

Brahms’s first Sextet is today regarded as one of his first major works. The String Sextet of the Gustav Mahler YOUTH orchestrA performs it together with the Sextet by the Czech master of Neoclassicism Bohuslav Martinů.

20 February 2011: Simply Classical.

The Trio 1800 performs highlights from the chamber music repertoire by Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven on period instruments.

27 February 2011: Italian Music between the Palace and the Marketplace.

The fiori musicali ensemble interprets works from the Renaissance, virtuoso Baroque music and early Italian popular music for soprano, flute, viola da gamba and harpsichord.

6 March 2011: Tango de Salòn.

The Austro-Ukrainian tango ensemble Tango de Salòn sweeps its audience off into the world of the tango, from Astor Piazzolla to the irresistibly danceable rhythms of “tango nuevo”.

13 March 2011: Duo of the GUSTAV MAHLER YOUTH ORCHESTRA.

Maria Grün (cello) and Franz-Markus Siegert (violin) perform Bach’s Suite No. 3 and Partita No. 2 and the rarely played second Duo for Violin and Violoncello by Bohuslav Martinů from 1958 and also premiere Oliver Madas’s Duo for Violin and Violoncello.

20 March 2011: Beethoven’s Letters.

Performances of trios for two oboes (Omar Zoboli, Ricardo Lopes) and English horn (Katharina Suske) by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Krommer are interspersed with readings of extracts from Beethoven’s letters by Stefan Suske.

27 March 2011: Septets from the early Romantic Age.

Seven members of the Wiener Nonett ensemble perform musical gems from the time around 1800.

3 April 2011: Highly gifted young musicians from Liechtenstein.

The piano trio Ingenium Musicum from Liechtenstein – Sara Domjanic (13, violin), Kian Soltani (18, violoncello) and Andreas Domjanic (15, piano) – perform wellknown compositions for solo, duo and trio.

10 April 2011: String Trio of the GUSTAV MAHLER YOUTH ORCHESTRA.

The programme of this chamber music concert features the Trio in G minor by Leó Weiner, the Duo for Violin and Cello by Zoltán Kodály and a selection from the 44 Violin Duos by Béla Bartók, performed by Therese Andersen, Maria Grün and Franz-Markus Siegert.

17 April 2011 (Palm Sunday): A Musical Offering on Palm Sunday.

The La Gioia Wien ensemble - Marie Mittermayr (flauto traverso), Barbara Klebel-Vock (harpsichord), Daniel Pilz (viola da gamba) and Anne Marie Dragosits (harpsichord) - perform pieces from the late oeuvre of the genius of counterpoint, Johann Sebastian Bach.

24 April 2011 (Easter Sunday): A Celebration for Easter Sunday.

The vocal ensemble of the coro siamo Viennese choir conducted by Florian Maierl sings festive motets for Easter Sunday.

1 May 2011: Undiscovered Treasures of European Chamber Music

Performing on period instruments, the Musica Ricercata ensemble present works by the Dutch composer Iwan Müller, Spanish composer Manuel Canales, the Luxembourg composer Laurent Menager together with Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet.

8 May 2011: From the Baroque to the Present: a programme by the GUSTAV MAHLER YOUTH ORCHESTRA.

Maria Grün (violoncello) and Oliver Madas (vibraphone) interpret works by Arvo Pärt, Antonio Vivaldi, Oliver Madas and Camille Saint-Saens.

15 May 2011: Highly Gifted Young Musicians from Vienna – The Carnival of the Animals.

A new generation of talented young musicians from Vienna conducted by Helga Marie Knava performs works for orchestra and piano by Johann Sebastian Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns (Carnival of the Animals) and Viktor Fortin.

22 May 2011: BAROQUE MUSIC FOR RECORDER AND HARPSICHORD.

Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder) and Florian Birsak (harpsichord) perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

29 May 2011: Songs from Three Centuries.

Benno Schollum (baritone) and Maja Weitz (piano) perform and read songs by Joseph Haydn, Edvard Grieg and Wilhelm Busch.

5 June 2011: Bach in Foreign Parts.

Johann Sebastian Bach was not only a master of German composition but also had a perfect command of other styles of European Baroque music. Erich Traxler (harpsichord) performs the Italian Concerto and the French Overture.

12 June 2011: String Trio of the GUSTAV MAHLER YOUTH ORCHESTRA.

The String Trio of the Gustav Mahler YOUTH ORCHESTRA performs virtuoso chamber music. The programme includes the Duo for Violin and Cello by Alessandro Rolla, the Duo for 2 Violins by Louis Spohr and the Trio in G minor by Heitor Villa-Lobos.

19 June 2011: Music by the Bach Family.

The Studio da camera Wien performs keyboard and chamber music by Johann Sebastian, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Wilhelm Friedemann and Johann Christian Bach.

26 June 2011: Les plaisirs de la vie.

The Ensemble Fioretto and Christina Stegmaier (soprano) perform music that expresses the joie de vivre of life at a princely court in eighteenth-century France.

3 July 2011: Summa Cum Laude.

The Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival is held under the patronage of Nikolaus Harnoncourt. At the competition in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein young musicians from all over the world come together to compete and exchange musical ideas and experiences. The LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM will host performances by a selection of these outstanding international ensembles.

10 July 2011: String Quartet of the GUSTAV MAHLER YOUTH ORCHESTRA.

The programme includes the Quartet No. 13 in A minor (‘Rosamunde Quartet’) by Franz Schubert and the Quartet No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 12 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

17 July 2011: I, Wolkenstein.

JMuch vaunted as ‘the last Minnesänger’, Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377 – 1445) composed poems of elemental power in a time of upheaval and change. The writer Gerhard Ruiss reads the humorous, zestful, partly bawdy, partly contemplative poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein with settings performed by the Paul Hofhaimer Consort Salzburg.

24 July 2011: Choral music from Dresden.

The Dresden University Choir conducted by Maja Sequeira performs (soprano) arias and choruses from the oratorios of Johann Adolf Hasse.

31 July 2011: Baroque Strings – Violoncello and Harpsichord.

Florian Roka (violoncello) and Peter Frisée (harpsichord) interpret Baroque treasures from France and Germany.

14 August 2011: Franz Liszt Bicentary Celebration – 2 (piano trio of the GUSTAV MAHLER YOUTH ORCHESTRA).

Together with Beethoven's Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1, the Lichtental Trio performs Franz Liszt's Tristia after the novel Obermann by Étienne Pivert de Sénancour.

21 August 2011: Franz Liszt Bicentary Celebration – 3.

Gert Hecher performs a selection from Liszt's Années de pèlerinage on an original 1859 concert grand by Andreas Streicher.

28 August 2011: Franz Liszt Bicentary Celebration – 4.

The Franz Schmidt Kammerorchester conducted by Nicolas Radulescu in a performance of Liszt's Second Piano Concerto with Hardy Rittner as soloist playing on a period concert grand made by Andreas Streicher in 1859. The programme also features other orchestral works by and associated with Franz Liszt.

4 September 2011: The Guitar – an Orchestra in Microcosm

The Austrian guitar soloist Armin Egger performs original works for guitar written by composers working within the ambit of Vienna’s great composers, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven.

11 September 2011: Theophil Ensemble of the GUSTAV MAHLER YOUTH ORCHESTRA.

Birgit Ramsl (flute) and her Theophil Ensemble Wien perform a programme of works for woodwind quintet under the motto ‘The Genius of Wood’ by Mozart, Milhaud, Ligeti and Berio.

18 September 2011: Baroque Instrumental music for church and salon.

The Collegium musicum of the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna joins forces with students from the Konservatorium Wien University in a programme of sonatas, suites and concertos from the 17th and 18th century.

25 September 2011: Solo Violin – CD presentation.

Cornelia Löscher performs works by Johann Sebastian Bach for solo violin and presents her new CD for the first time in Vienna.

2 October 2011: Four Horns.

The Sächsisches Hornquartett performs compositions by Constantin Homilius, Jan Koetsier, Anton Bruckner and Gioachino Rossini together with early Saxon pieces for ‘tower music’.

9 October 2011: String Quintet of the GUSTAV MAHLER YOUTH ORCHESTRA.

Fritz Kreisler’s String Quintet in A minor will be performed together with Johannes Brahms’s famous String Quintet No. 2 in G major by the String Quintet of the Gustav Mahler youth orchestra.

16 October 2011: From Bach’s Cantatas.

The musica novantica vienna ensemble with Natalia Sharay (soprano) and Cornelia Traxler (alto) perform arias and duets from cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach.

23 October 2011: PRIMA LA MUSICA 1.

To accompany the temporary exhibition THE IMAGE OF THE CHILD. Children in the mirror of art from the 15th to the 20th century, gifted Viennese prizewinners of the Federal Austrian Youth Music Competition showcase their talents.

30 October 2011: Brandenburg Concertos.

The Concilium musicum Wien performs the Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach on period instruments.

6 November 2011: PRIMA LA MUSICA 2.

13 November 2011: Wind Quartet of the GUSTAV MAHLER YOUTH ORCHESTRA.

Together with the strings of the Gustav Mahler YOUTH ORCHESTRA, flautist Andreas Planyavsky interprets Mozart’s Flute Quartet in A major from 1778. The other works featured in the programme are a French rarity, the Trio for Flute, Harp and Violoncello by Jean Françaix, and Gottfried von Einem’s 1989 masterpiece, the Duo for Flute and Violoncello.

20 November 2011: Baroque Clarinet and Chalumeau.

The Calamus Consort (Ernst Schlader, Markus Springer and Mario Aschauer) performs original music written for these forgotten early instruments by Georg Philipp Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Joseph Fux.

27 November 2011 (1st Sunday in Advent): An Unusual Duo from Bohemia – Guitar and Flute.

Kristina Vaculová (flute) and Libor Jane􀀀ek (guitar) perform unfamiliar works by composers from Bach to Piazzolla in this rarely heard duo formation.

4 December 2011 (2nd Sunday in Advent): PRIMA LA MUSICA 3.

11 December 2011 (3rd Sunday in Advent): String Quintet of the GUSTAV MAHLER YOUTH ORCHESTRA.

The Gustav Mahler youth orchestra performs Franz Schubert’s masterpiece, the String Quintet in C major, D 956.

18 December 2011 (4th Sunday in Advent): From Heaven Above to Earth I Come.

The SchubertArtEnsemble devotes itself both to the interpretation of music from the Vienna of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and to the performance of Christmas carols under the motto My Heart Rejoiceth.