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Gál's
'Burleske', from his opera Die beiden Klaas,
opened the programme of the Holocaust
Memorial Day event at the Liverpool
Philharmonic Hall on Sunday 27th January 2008, played
by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
The
newly-formed Ensemble
Hans Gál - Shelley Levy (clarinet),
Katalin Kertész (violin) and Mark Nixon (piano)
- toured South Africa in the summer of 2007, performing
trios by Gál, Bartok and Khachaturian.

They performed at : Cape
Town, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban,
Drakensberg Mountain Retreat, Bloemfontein and La
Motte Wine Farm
The
group Amalgamation
performed the Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and
Cello at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in a lunchtime
concert at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh,
on 17th August 2007.
CONCERT
TO CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF THE HANS GÁL SOCIETY
IN SCOTLAND
The
Edinburgh Quartet played Gal's 1st and 3rd String
Quartets and his Improvisation, Variations and Finale
on a Theme by Mozart at the St. Cecilia's Hall,
Edinburgh, on 24th April, 2007. The concert celebrated
the launch of the Hans
Gál Society in Scotland and also marked
the release of the quartet's recording of Gál's
complete string quartets on the Meridian label.
The
MusicaNova Orchestra
of Cave Creek, Arizona,
USA, performed Gál's 3rd symphony in its
series Entartete Musik at the Scottsdale
Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona, on April
29th, 2007. For further details click here.
Annette-Barbara-Vogel,
Chad Burrow and Peter Miyamoto
performed
the Clarinet Trio in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and
Columbia, Missouri, in March 2007.
An
Anniversary Concert
To
mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Hans Gál,
featuring
Ensemble Hans Gál
took place on Thursday
1st November, 2007, 8 p.m. at
Stockbridge Parish Church
Edinburgh
Programme:
Khachaturian: Trio for violin, clarinet and piano
Gál: Sonata for Violin and PIano
Schumann: Phantasiestücke for violin,
clarinet and piano
Gál: Trio for violin, clarinet and piano
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Annette
Barbara Vogel
and Edward Turgeon
will play the Sonata op. 17, the Suite op. 56, and
the Violin Sonata (1933) at the University of Western
Ontaria, London Ontario, at Guelph, Ontario, at Bowling
Green, Ontario, Canada, and at Heidelberg College,
Tiffin, Ohio, during January, 2008
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- New
Recording
The Edinburgh
Quartet have now recorded the complete cycle
of string quartets, which has been released by
Meridian in 2 volumes. Click
the CD-image.

- 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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