Chamber Music Concert with Kathrin Lorenzen

aug.

Tuesday 18:00

EVENT DATE PASSED

Winner of the Soloist Prize 2024 and member of the Swedish Radio Choir, soprano Kathrin Lorenzen, performs together with pianist Oskar Ekberg and cellist Anna Garde. Austrian Johanna Müller-Hermann and Finnish-born Swedish Laura Netzel were both active as composers and within the cultural sphere in the late 19th and early 20th century. Under the pseudonym Claire Delbos, French violinist Louise-Justine Messiaen composed vocal, piano, and organ works in the 1930s and 40s. Contemporary Juhi Bansal, originally from India and Hong Kong, weaves together present-day musical elements into distinct, wide-ranging compositions.

Please note the change in program due to illness.

Please note that the ticket is also valid for the conversation Historiography and stories of the future.

Participants

Kathrin Lorenzen, soprano
Oskar Ekberg, piano

Oskar Ekberg har sedan debuten med Sveriges Radios symfoniorkester 2004 varit efterfrågad solist, kammarmusiker och orkestermusiker, nationellt och internationellt. Han har rönt stor uppskattning för sitt engagemang för den svenska musiken, med flera uppmärksammade soloinspelningar på CD med musik av Elfrida Andrée, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad samt samtliga klaversviter av Johan Helmich Roman (Grammisnominerad för Bästa klassiska album). Han repertoarval präglas ofta av intresse att lyfta det undangömda men fantastiska, och är bl.a. en mycket uppskattad ambassadör för Olivier Messiaens pianomusik. Förutom ett rikt konserterande arbetar han sedan 2016 år som professor i piano på Marie Cederschiöld högskola i Stockholm.
Anna Garde, cello

Programme

Concert length: 50 mins

JOHANNA MÜLLER-HERMANN: Five songs op. 2

11 min

I. Willst du mit mir wandern

II. Weisst du noch

III. Liebeslied

IV. Der letzte Abend

V. Einem guten Grund hat’s
JUHI BANSAL: Love, Loss, and Exile – women’s poems from Afghanistan

21 min

We don’t often think of poetry as rebellion, but the women of Afghanistan have built a tradition out of artistic defiance, of speaking in rhyme words they are forbidden in prose. In the Pashtun culture from the mountainous regions near Pakistan, girls and women share, compose, and speak landays – an oral tradition of short poems by and for women, passed down for generations from woman to woman and tribe to tribe.

The anonymous nature of these poems allows them to speak the unspeakable – to talk frankly of sensual love and desire, of yearning to make choices, of girls wanting to be more than an adjunct to their fathers, brothers, and husbands. In a society where young girls are bartered to old men, where to choose where to love is to risk death, where girls are forbidden from education, the landays tell women’s stories in their own words, unfiltered and unchecked by the men’s voices that surround them.

The texts chosen for this song cycle are only the tiniest smattering of a powerful tradition, but were chosen to highlight recurrent themes that appear in landays – love and desire, grief, exile, war, and yearning. While set for classical soprano with Western instruments, the music pays homage to the origins of the poetry by calling for each musician to use a variety of timbres, modes and ornamentation that come from this style.

Juhi Bansal
LAURA NETZEL: Cantabile ma non troppo lento from Cello Sonata op. 66

6 min
CLAIRE DELBOS: Primevère – five songs after Cécile Sauvage

5 min

Chamber Music Concert with Kathrin Lorenzen

Participants

Kathrin Lorenzen, soprano

Oskar Ekberg, piano

Anna Garde, cello

Programme