Abstract
The Brunch/Lunch Concert on March 1st and 2nd is dedicated to romanticism with Louise Farrenc and Ludwig Thuille. Parisian Louise Farrenc (1805-1875), whose «Bläsersextett in c-Moll op. 40» is on the program, has only again been known to the music world for some 20 years, although she was a respected composer and professor of piano at the Paris Conservatoire during her lifetime. Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907), a close friend of Richard Strauss and professor of composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Munich, wrote his «Sextett in B-Dur für Klavier und Bläserquintett op. 6» between 1886-1888. The work is inspired by Johannes Brahms – especially his 2nd Piano Concerto – and, according to Thuille’s biographer Friedrich Munter, possesses «a pronounced sense of beauty», which is expressed «in equal measure in the perfection of form, melody and sound».