As part of the European Music Festival, the Ma'a lot Quintet fromGermany will be featured at a concert in HCM City on Nov. 18 at thecity's Music Conservatory.
The concert, sponsored by theGoethe Institute in HCM City , will include performances of worksby Mozart, Ligeti, Glanert and Piazzolla.
Founded in 1986, the Ma'alot Quintet is among on Nov. 17's leading international chamber music ensembles.
Their repertoire includes the entire wind quintet literature from theclassical to the avant-garde, often in their own arrangements. They alsoregularly perform premiere works by contemporary composers.
Ma'alot has won several first prizes in major internationalcompetitions, as well as praise and awards for their CD recordings. Thegroup has toured Asia, the US and South America .
All of the ensemble members are active as soloists in major German orchestras or as professors at music conservatories.
Five pieces from Mozart's opera Cosi fan tutte address the subject ofthe opera, love and all its confusion, with fast tempos and swirlingwind figures varied with delicate intimacy.
The six shortpieces by Gyurgi Ligeti, which the composer himself arranged for windquintet, are very different: in just four to 11 different tones, withsimple
rhythms, the Hungarian composer seeks a new, original aesthetic for
the music of the 20th century.
Deja vu by contemporary German composer Detlev Glanert demonstrates hisconfrontation with the models of classical music and also plays withthe contrast of solo and ensemble.
Two tango suites byAstor Piazzolla, full of energy and passion, conclude the concert, whichbegins at 8pm at the conservatory, 112 Nguyen Du street in District1./.