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Today I am going for an unwieldy title award. What was really meant by all those unnecessary words is that we very excitingly got ourselves together and made seating reservations at the sparsely occurring concerts out here in the wilds. This season the line up features the Alban Berg quartet, playing Haydn, Berg and Beethoven. According to wikipedia they are disbanding this summer, so we’re lucky to be able to see them play. I have Beethoven’s Op. 132 playing right now, as a T-minus two-weekly warm-up. It’s probably the late quartet I know the least well.
The other concert I’m excited about is Camerata Nordica, who will be playing pieces by Webern, Wolf, Kreisler, and Beethoven; two of whom I’ve never heard of (and I bet you can’t guess which). They will supposedly be playing Beethoven’s op. 130 but with the Grosse Fugue ending, which is one of my absolute favorites.
I’m prepared for disappointment though. Last year I was pumped for a Shostakovich symphony, and then they changed it to — euugh — Rachmaninoff. Sacrilege!
