GEGEN DEN STROM: Quartetto in un fiato

The quartet in wind offers a program featuring works from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and contemporary periods with a lineup of flute, violin, piano, and a small percussion instrumentarium - as a kind of 'fountain of youth', so to speak, 'forever young'. Exemplary of this is the opening piece: Schubert's virtuosic sole work for flute and piano takes a song from 'Die schöne Müllerin'. The miller finds new life energy after the loss of his wife in the fresh nature that re-emerges after winter. And two more figures appear throughout who escape the passage of time: the "Beautiful Minka" and Carmen from the opera of the same name. 

Flutist Mariia Kostina, violinist Oksana Pinchuk, and pianist Oksana Shnit are of Ukrainian descent, having studied in Kyiv and Germany, and they are performing internationally. All three were born in 1990. Additionally, there is the composer and concert musician Günther Wiesemann, born in 1956, who contributes with the quartet composition 'Sei und Sehnsucht'. 

In this quartet formation established in 2022, instruments from four instrumental groups are included (wind and string instruments, keyboard and percussion instruments) and musicians from two generations act in one breath, the breath of a world worth preserving and worthy of preservation. A world from which we do not want to expect the breath to run out. The flute, violin, piano (organ, harpsichord) and a wide array of percussion instruments are employed in works from various epochs. The repertoire ranges from Baroque to the present.

P R O G R A M

Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)   Introduction and Variations op. 160    (D 802)  Ihr Blümlein alle‘ for flute and piano 
Introduction (Andante) – Theme (Andantino) – Variations I – VI -   Variation VII: Allegro

Günther Wiesemann (1956)  Sei und Sehnsucht  (III) for flute, violin, piano, sound cup, speaker

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)  Double Concerto for Oboe (Flute), Violin and Piano (Harpsichord) d minor (BWV 1060 R)  (Reconstruction after BWV 1060 c minor), Allegro – Adagio - Allegro

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)  From Variations on 10 Folk Tunes for Flute and Piano op. 107 ('Ten Varied Themes'): No. 7 A minor on the Ukrainian folk song 'Ikhav Kozak za Dunaj' (“Beautiful Minka”)

Günther Wiesemann (1956)  Here, here, place for flute, piano, and percussion instruments

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)   Scherzo and Rondo, Allegro ma non troppo from the ‘Spring Sonata’, Sonata No. 5 F major op. 24for violin and piano  (Movements 3 and 4)

Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875)    Fantasie brillante sur ‘Carmen’   for flute and piano
Francois Borne (1840 – 1920)