CHAMBER MUSIC
Upcoming project -- String Octet
PROGRAM
Felix Mendelssohn - String Octet Op. 20 in E flat major, 33’
Mathilde Wantenaar - Octet for Strings 17'
Felix Mendelssohn - String Octet Op. 20 in E flat major, 33’
- Allegro moderato ma con fuoco
- Andante
- Scherzo: allegro leggierissimo
- Presto
Mathilde Wantenaar - Octet for Strings 17'
Ensemble 42 chamber music offers a program with Mendelssohn's famous octet op. 20 and a new composition by young composition talent Mathilde Wantenaar. The ensemble is formed by professional musicians that each have have carved out a special place for themselves in the Dutch music scene. Each player has a separate specialty in addition to playing a string instrument at a high level, and brings his or her additional knowledge to the ensemble. Some play in well-known baroque ensembles, others sing as soloists and/or ensemble singers in, among others, Cappella Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and choir. This project also offers two places for young upcoming talents who play at a very high level. For this project we have invited two members of the Jonge Strijkers Chamber Orchestra who will perform this program with us. This program is led by Hebe de Champeaux, who graduated cum laude with a degree in Violin Performance from San Francisco State University under the instruction of the Alexander String Quartet.
This program is all about young talent. Mendelssohn wrote his octet when he was only sixteen years old, and it was an immediate success. The piece is full of energy and with lively rhythms comparable to beautiful melodies, but at the same time it is also a virtuoso exercise in counterpoint. He also weaves an ode to Handel's Messiah with the melody 'And he will reign forever and ever' in the eighth-part fugato in the finale.
Mathilde Wantenaar is a young composer who has achieved one success after another since her first premiere in 2016, when she wrote a chamber opera for the Opera Forward Festival. Since then she has written for the National Opera, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Groot Omroepkoor, NedPho, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Wishful Singing, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and others.
It is not without reason that we have asked two young violinists to play this program. Elze and Eva, surprisingly 13 and 12 years old, are two top talents who play with the chamber orchestra of Jonge Strijkers Nederland. Coincidentally, they are both also working on Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, which was written twenty years later than the Octet. Playing the Octet op. 20 thus provides an important educative element for them to gain a greater insight into the composer's work, and will certainly help them to better understand the violin concerto.
This program can be accompanied by a High Tea package. We work with former chef Anna Rusch to create menus that are creatively interwoven with the thematic material of the music. For example, she made “Griegkugeln with a hint of chili, brownies, and passion fruit raspberry tartelette” for a part of a Sonata by Edward Grieg that could only be described as sensual. She also presents very practical and self-written poetic program descriptions to present her baking talents. Ultimately, her contribution to this chamber music program is a feast for the ears, eyes and taste buds.
Concerts
11th May 2025 -- Huis Kernhem
8th June 2025 -- Dorpskerk Durgerdam
This program is all about young talent. Mendelssohn wrote his octet when he was only sixteen years old, and it was an immediate success. The piece is full of energy and with lively rhythms comparable to beautiful melodies, but at the same time it is also a virtuoso exercise in counterpoint. He also weaves an ode to Handel's Messiah with the melody 'And he will reign forever and ever' in the eighth-part fugato in the finale.
Mathilde Wantenaar is a young composer who has achieved one success after another since her first premiere in 2016, when she wrote a chamber opera for the Opera Forward Festival. Since then she has written for the National Opera, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Groot Omroepkoor, NedPho, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Wishful Singing, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and others.
It is not without reason that we have asked two young violinists to play this program. Elze and Eva, surprisingly 13 and 12 years old, are two top talents who play with the chamber orchestra of Jonge Strijkers Nederland. Coincidentally, they are both also working on Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, which was written twenty years later than the Octet. Playing the Octet op. 20 thus provides an important educative element for them to gain a greater insight into the composer's work, and will certainly help them to better understand the violin concerto.
This program can be accompanied by a High Tea package. We work with former chef Anna Rusch to create menus that are creatively interwoven with the thematic material of the music. For example, she made “Griegkugeln with a hint of chili, brownies, and passion fruit raspberry tartelette” for a part of a Sonata by Edward Grieg that could only be described as sensual. She also presents very practical and self-written poetic program descriptions to present her baking talents. Ultimately, her contribution to this chamber music program is a feast for the ears, eyes and taste buds.
Concerts
11th May 2025 -- Huis Kernhem
8th June 2025 -- Dorpskerk Durgerdam
