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“The Last Rose of Summer” 2024
Friday August 16 - Tuessday August 20, 2024 Daliy at 1p.m.

Lunch concert festival in the House of the Embassy of Ireland, the headquarters of Mendelssohn Bank
Artistic direction: Judith Ingolfsson & Vladimir Stoupel
The festival presents compositions whose genesis and historical performances are linked to the Musikwerkstatt Berlin: Composers and musicians from all over the world who were inspired by this city.
A cooperation event between the Mendelssohn Society and the Embassy of Ireland, sponsored by the Embassy of Iceland, supported by Guy Oppenheim. The festival is part of Zeitgeist Ireland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Irish Embassy in Germany.

In the 2024 season, tickets can be purchased on site from 15.7. during the opening of the exhibition in the Mendelssohn-Remise; remaining tickets at the box office or online (www.bit.ly/lastrose2024)
Info: www.bit.ly/festival-remise
Program subject to change

Friday, August 16, 2024 - Opening concert / Irish Day
Siobhán Armstrong, Irish Harp
Music from ancient Ireland, England and the continent of Europe
Followed by: Get together

Saturday, August 17, 2024 - Songs with violin
Jeanne Seguin, soprano
Hrayr Atshemyan, violin
Rebecca Clarke: Three old English songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams: From the cycle “Along the fields”
Rebecca Clarke: Three Irish country songs
Albert Roussel: Deux poèmes de Pierre de Ronsard Op. 26, No. 2
Gustav Holst: Four Songs for Voice and Violin Op. 35
Komitas Vardapet: Three Armenian Songs
(arrangement for voice and violin: Hrayr Atshemyan)

Sunday, August 18, 2024 - Fanny Hensel's Sunday Music
Sibbi Bernhardsson, violin
Alan Stoupel, violin
Judith Ingolfsson, viola
Friedemann Ludwig, violoncello
Andreas Arndt, speaker
Vladimir Stoupel, piano
Fanny Hensel: Piano Quartet in A flat major H55
C.M. von Weber: Piano Quartet in B flat major op. 8

Monday, August 19, 2024 - Faith and hope
Judith Ingolfsson, violin
Carol McGonnell, clarinet
Friedemann Ludwig, violoncello
Vladimir Stoupel, piano
Olivier Messiaen: “Quatuor pour la fin du temps” / Quartet for the end of time (1940-1941)

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 - Conclusion in a quintet
Sibbi Bernhardsson, violin
Alan Stoupel, violin
Judith Ingolfsson, viola
Friedemann Ludwig, violoncello
Vladimir Stoupel, piano
W.A. Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor KV 478
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A major op. 81

"Klassik um Eins" ist das Frühjahrsfestival in der Mendelssohn-Remise. Es findet statt an den zehn ersten Donnerstagen des Jahres (Ausnahme 2020: Start ab dem 9. Januar!), jeweils um 13 Uhr, Dauer ca. 45 Minuten: als Kooperationsveranstaltung der Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin mit der Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft. Die Leitung und Moderation des Programms hat Prof. Birgitta Wollenweber, es musizieren Studenten der HfM Hanns Eisler. Der Eintritt ist frei, um großzügige Spenden für die Remise und für das „Klassik um Eins“-Stipendium der HfM Hanns Eisler wird gebeten. Platzreservierungen sind nicht möglich, Einlaßkarten sind am Konzerttag ab 11 Uhr vor Ort zu erhalten.