Serenaden

In the 18th century, serenades were considered evening entertainment at its best - if you weren't going to the opera. And the program of the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn should be understood in the same way: Beginning with probably the most famous serenade of all, Mozart's "Little Night Music". It was composed parallel to the opera "Don Giovanni" and was probably never performed during his lifetime. A very special solo instrument takes center stage in Handel's concerto: Silke Aichhorn, Ervis Gega's chamber music partner of many years, can be heard here on the harp. Gustav Mahler's "Adagietto" from his 5th Symphony, which will be familiar to cineastes from the Thomas Mann film "Death in Venice", is almost unearthly in its beauty, but also melancholy. The evening will end with a rather upbeat piece, Dvorak's String Serenade in E major op. 22.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 13 in G major K. 525, "A little night music"
George Frideric Handel: Harp Concerto in B flat major op. 4, No. 6 HWV 294
Gustav Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Antonín Dvořák: String Serenade in E major op. 22

Silke Aichhorn, harp
Ervis Gega, violin and conductor