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Lucie
Spickova (mezzo) and Lada Valesova performed
Gál songs at the Opera de Lille (www.opera-lille.fr),
in their Wednesday Concert Series on the 3rd of June.
The concert was called Chants du Danube.
The
internment camp revue "What a Life!", first
performed on the Isle of Man in 1940, with music by
Hans Gál, and never performed since, was performed
at the Austrian Embassy in Washington D.C. on Thursday
May 28th. Also on the programme were Gál's
"Huyton Suite" op. 92, his Clarinet Trio
op. 97 and his Saxophone Suite op. 102b.
Hartmut
Hudezeck and the ensemble 'Kontrapunkte', conducted
by Peter Keuschnig, played Gál's Piano Concerto
op. 57 in the Vienna Musikverein on 4th May 2009.
Gál's
Variations on a theme of Mozart for string quartet,
op. 60b,were played by the Motyl
Chamber Ensemble on 21st April at Columbia
University, New York and on May 7th at Staten Island
College.
The Choir and Orchestra of the University of Hamburg,
directed by Bruno de Greeve, performed Hans Gál's
cantata Lebenskreise ('Life Cycles') in the
Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, on 1st February 2009.
Karin
Adam (violin), Christoph Stradner (cello) and Doris
Adam (piano)
performed Gál's Piano Trios op. 49b and op.
18 on 3rd March 2009 in Baden and on 12 March 2009
in the Schönberg-Center, Vienna, alongside Schönberg's
'Verklärte Nacht'.
They
also played 2 movements from op. 49b and op. 9 ('Heurigen'
variations) on 12th January 2009 at a book presentation
in Vienna.
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Ensemble
K (http://ensemble.k.free.fr) will play Gál's
Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Op.97, in the Auditorium
du Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, on 28th January
2010, at 8.p.m., as part of the 4th Festival international
Voix étouffées.
(http://www.voixetouffees.org)
Christian
Wilson
will play Gál's Organ Toccata (op. 29) in Southwark
cathedral on 8th February, 2010.
Hans
Gál Society Concert
Edinburgh, 24th February, 2010
Anthony
Goldstone & Caroline Clemmow: Piano Duos
Click here for details
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Impromptu
for Viola and Piano
This
is a little piece composed in 1940 for Gál’s
son, Peter, when he had just ‘graduated’
from violin to viola. As the Preface to the work
indicates: “The Impromptu for Viola and Piano,
published here for the first time, with its tuneful
lyricism and atmospheric piano part, so typical
of Gál, enriches the viola repertoire with
an original little work, full of character and at
the same time playable; it is excellently suited
to young players or those changing to the instrument,
but also to every amateur viola player, as a repertoire,
performance or competition piece.”
The work is published by Schott (VAB69;
ISMN 979-0-001-15437-6)
Sonata
in D for Violin and Piano (1933)
This
work was composed in Vienna in 1933, immediately after
Gál’s return to Vienna following his
dismissal from his post in Mainz. It remained unpublished
and unperformed in his lifetime, and was first performed
at the Wigmore Hall in London on 5th November, 2001,
by David Frühwirth (violin) and Henri Sigfridsson
(piano).
It is published by Boosey and Hawkes under the Simrock
label (EE5318; ISMN 979-0-2211-2109-7).
- New
Recording
of the complete organ works of Hans Gál,
including his Two Religious
Songs and the Concertino for Organ and String Orchestra.
By Istvan Matyas (organ) with Adrineh Simonean,
member of the Volksoper Vienna (mezzo-soprano),
David Pennetzdorfer (cello, winner of several international
competitions), and the orchestra "Wiener Akademie",
conducted by Martin Haselböck.
The recording has recently been released by NCA
(Hamburg)
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