Zimmer 718 aims to bridge the divide between the blown and bowed (sometimes plucked) communities by together exploring well known and obscure music composed for wind and string septet and octet.
In this performance, we offer Beethoven’s Septet, Op. 20, one of his best loved compositions during his life time (he came to hate it for its popularity) and the inspiration for numerous imitations throughout the 19th Century, from the sublime Schubert (Octet) to obscure and forgotten composers like Adolphe Blanc (a surprisingly charming Grand Septet).
Joined by soprano Tami Petty, Zimmer 718 will also perform an arrangement of Wagner’sWesendonck Lieder for soprano and octet, based on Romantic poetry of Mathilde Wesendonck (was she his lover?). Composed around the time that he was conceiving Tristan und Isolde (he subtitled two of the songs as studies for the opera), Wagner originally set these five poems for voice and piano in 1857/58, but he also arranged one of them for chamber orchestra accompaniment, and other arrangers have set the complete song cycle for orchestra over the years. The current version with chamber octet is by Rainer Schottstädt.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Septet in Eb Major, Op. 20, for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, violonello, doube bass
Richard Wagner, Wesendonck Lieder (arr. Rainer Schottstädt) for soprano, clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, violoncello, double bass
Suxiao Yang: Violin
Julia Yook: Violin
Elizabeth Holub: Viola
Rachel Santamaria-Schwartz: Cello
Taylor Bergren-Chrisman: Double Bass
Larry Beckhardt: Clarinet
Jacob Garniez: Horn
Nisreen Nor: Bassoon
Tami Petty: Soprano
Tami Petty made her Lincoln Center debut singing Rossini’s PETITE MESSE SOLENELLE with the Voices of Ascension at Alice Tully Hall in 2010. The New York Times praised Petty’s “powerful soprano,” and Classical Music Network declared, “Such a beauty and purity of tone is so rare that I could only listen in ethereal pleasure.” Recent performances include the Mozart REQUIEM with Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, the FOUR LAST SONGS of Richard Strauss with the symphonies of Fort Collins and St. Joseph, and the Joy in Singing Award Winner recital at Merkin Hall.
Upcoming New York performances include Sametz’s CARMINA AMORIS at Carnegie Hall, lieder of Marx and Strauss at the Kosciuszko Foundation, Rossini’s PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE with the Dalton Chorale, and Poulenc’s MÉTAMORPHOSES and MIROIRS BRÛLANTS with Brooklyn Art Song Society. Other appearances include Beethoven’s SYMPHONY NO. 9 with Altoona Symphony Orchestra and Vaughan Williams’ A SEA SYMPHONY with Manchester Choral Society. For more info, please visit www.TamiPetty.com.
