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29 May, 2023, 7:30PM (In-Person Event)
Theodoor Rombouts, The Card Players (ca. 1620)
Concluding its 54th season, in a showcase of musical couplings, the Norfolk Chamber Consort welcomes Invencia Piano Duo, comprised of Andrey Kasparov and Oksana Lutsyshyn, and other guest artists to Old Dominion University’s Chandler Recital Hall. The evening will feature works by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, Ravel, and Debussy.
At the close of what has been an engaging season of live performances, Andrey Kasparov and Oksana Lutsyshyn, Artistic Co-Directors of the Norfolk Chamber Consort since 2009, spoke recently with Montague Gammon III of Veer Magazine to reflect on the Chamber Consort’s upcoming recital entitled “The Game of Pairs”:
Oksana Lutsyshyn & Andrey Kasparov (Photographer, Pamela Manning)
The… program begins with Frenchman Maurice Ravel’s Violin Sonata No. 2…, featuring Ànnika Jenkins on violin and Lutsyshyn on piano…. Lutsyshyn says that the Ravel can be a “difficult collaboration.”
After intermission, it’s J.S. Bach to the fore with his ca. 1734 Concerto for Two Harpsichords and Orchestra in C minor…. The three-movement concerto is an intricate, and in the first and third movements, virtually a toe-tapping, display of virtuosity of composer and musicians. Kasparov sums it up as simply “a very powerful combination.”
Kasparov made the interesting point that “When Mozart said ‘The great Bach he is the father, we are the children,’ he meant C.P.E. Bach not J.S Bach. His work was more well-known and influential than his father’s. He influenced Beethoven, Haydn [and] he was also influential as an author. You cannot be serious about the art if you have not read this book [True Art of Keyboard Playing]…. He was the most experimental of the ‘Bach batch’.”
Click here for the full interview or see the May, 2023, edition of Veer Magazine.
The first half of the program will open with pianist Oksana Lutsyshyn and violinist Ànnika Jenkins in Maurice Ravel’s Violin Sonata (1923-1927). To follow, Ànnika and cellist Elizabeth Richards will perform two Inventions, of J.S. Bach, No. 10 in G Major, BWV 781, and No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775. Oksana will then return to the stage to join Elizabeth Richards in the Sonata No. 1 (1915) of Claude Debussy.
The second half will feature the Consort’s Artistic Co-Directors, Oksana Lutsyshyn and Andrey Kasparov, as Invencia Piano Duo, in two concerti for two harpsichords. With violinists Gretchen Loyola and Ànnika Jenkins, violist Celia Daggy, cellist Elizabeth Richards, along with Marlene Ford and Jeffrey Warren on French Horn, Jeffrey Phelps will conduct performances of J.S. Bach’s Concerto in C minor for Two Harpsichords and Orchestra, BWV 1060, and C.P.E. Bach’s Concerto in F Major for Two Harpsichords, Orchestra, and Continuo, Wq 46.
The program will begin at 7:30PM, with a pre-concert discussion from 7:15PM.
Tickets at the door $25.00 (students FREE with a valid ID).
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E-mail invenciaduo@gmail.com for further details.
Click here for the Norfolk Chamber Consort’s 2022-2023 performance schedule.
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