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Reflections: Contemplative Music Meditation for Cello & Piano – Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink

2013-10-28T13:50:59+02:00

Reflections: Contemplative music for Cello & Piano – Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink

Where: Erin Hall, Erin Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town

When: Sunday 3 November 2013, 4pm  – 5.30pm

Further Information: 073 53 58 595

https://www.albertcombrink.com / Twitter: @albertcombrink

Presented in collaboration with Cellist in the City

Booking: Quicket or at the Door – R80 Adults / R50 Scholars

 

VIEW PHOTOS OF THE EVENT HERE.

reflections 2 erin poster-2

Following the success of the “Lenten Meditation” Cello Recital at St. George’s Cathedral earlier this year, the “Out-the-box-to-the-heart” duo, present a new programme of reflective, meditative [read more…]

Reflections: Contemplative Music Meditation for Cello & Piano – Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink2013-10-28T13:50:59+02:00

Reflections: Contemplative music for Cello & Piano – Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink

2013-10-13T16:42:40+02:00

Reflections: Contemplative music for Cello & Piano – Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink

Where: Erin Hall, Erin Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town

When: Sunday 3 November 2013, 4pm  – 5.30pm

Further Information: 073 53 58 595

https://www.albertcombrink.com / Twitter: @albertcombrink

Presented in collaboration with Cellist in the City

Booking: Quicket or at the Door – R80 Adults / R50 Scholars

 

Following the success of the “Lenten Meditation” Cello Recital at St. George’s Cathedral earlier this year, the “Out-the-box-to-the-heart” duo, present a new programme of reflective, meditative pieces drawn form a variety of styles and genres. They will repeat the most popular numbers [read more…]

Reflections: Contemplative music for Cello & Piano – Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink2013-10-13T16:42:40+02:00

Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, op 38 – Allegretto quasi Menuetto (Guest author Sara Acres)

2013-09-03T13:44:49+02:00

Caspar David Friedrich: "Frau vor die untergehende Sonne"

 

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, op 38   Allegretto quasi  Menuetto

During the troubled months leading up to Schumann’s death, the 21-year-old Brahms lived in the Schumann household,  looking after their six children during Clara’s frequent concert tours and growing emotionally closer to  Clara herself.  It was, no doubt a stressful time for everyone so it comes as no surprise that Brahms was also battling persistent writer‘s block caused by what he perceived to be a plateau in his creativity. [read more…]

Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, op 38 – Allegretto quasi Menuetto (Guest author Sara Acres)2013-09-03T13:44:49+02:00

“O kühler Wald” (Johannes Brahms)

2013-08-30T22:07:22+02:00

Trees A Combrink

“O kühler Wald” Op.72 No.3, (Fünf Gesänge 1877)

(Music: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Original Key A Flat Major.  Text:  Clemens Maria Wenzeslaus von Brentano (1778-1842) , no title, 1802, published 1844.

The Composer
A product of Brahms in maturity, the Op.72 set of 5 songs appeared 6 months after the triumphant premiere. The 44-year-old composer was living comfortably off publishers’ royalties. He kept a comfortable flat in Vienna and spent holidays in Italy. In over 380 songs he created a vast body of work in the genre only surpassed by Schubert. He had a [read more…]

“O kühler Wald” (Johannes Brahms)2013-08-30T22:07:22+02:00

An die Musik: Songs and Sonatas by Brahms and Schubert: Sarah Acres (Cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)

2013-08-29T19:41:13+02:00

Sarah Acres, Albert Combrink, Brahms & Schubert project

An die Musik: Songs and Sonatas by Brahms and Schubert: Sarah Acres (Cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)

Following the success of their French Song Programme series earlier this year, the Cello and Piano Duo now turn their creative energies to the work of Brahms and Schubert, in a programme-series that explores larger concert-works for the cello, off-set with cello-transcriptions of songs by both composers. Hamburg-born Brahms, and Schubert – hailing from the perhaps less-famous Himmelpfortgrund – both worked in Vienna in [read more…]

An die Musik: Songs and Sonatas by Brahms and Schubert: Sarah Acres (Cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)2013-08-29T19:41:13+02:00

Live Video: La mer est plus belle (Debussy): Sarah Acres (Cello) / Albert Combrink (Piano)

2013-07-02T06:59:54+02:00

 ”La mer est plus belle”, L. 81 no. 1 (1891)(Claude Debussy): Sarah Acres (Cello), Albert Combrink (Piano)

Live Amateur Video recorded at the Casa Labia Cultural Center, Muizenberg, Cape Town, 13 June 2013

This version for Cello Arranged by Sarah Acres
Website: Sarah Acres – Cellist in the City
Website: Albert Combrink – HERE.
Twitter: @albertcombrink

Read more about the original programme HERE.

Read more about the song HERE.

"The Great Wave of Kanogawa" by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎?, <a href=[read more…]

Live Video: La mer est plus belle (Debussy): Sarah Acres (Cello) / Albert Combrink (Piano)2013-07-02T06:59:54+02:00

Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée (Reynaldo Hahn)

2013-07-01T18:32:19+02:00

Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée (Reynaldo Hahn)

~~”The dark and abyss have a deep mystery, That no mortal has penetrated”  – Victor Hugo

Ivan Aivazovsky: "The Black Sea at Night" 1879 Ivan Aivazovsky: “The Black Sea at Night” 1879

 

Written in 1922, the year of the death of Hahn’s life-long friend and one time lover – the only lover he ever seems to have had – Marcel Proust, Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée sets an expansive text by Victor Hugo. It sings of enlightenement and transfiguration; of the comfort of [read more…]
Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée (Reynaldo Hahn)2013-07-01T18:32:19+02:00

Live Video: D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn) – Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink

2013-06-30T21:17:04+02:00

D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn) Sarah Acres (Cello), Albert Combrink (Piano)

Live Amateur Video recorded at the Casa Labia Cultural Center, Muizenberg, Cape Town, 13 June 2013


This version for Cello and Piano Arranged by Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink
Website: Sarah Acres – http://www.facebook.com/CellistInTheCity
Website: Albert Combrink – https://www.albertcombrink.com
Twitter: @albertcombrink

Read more about the original programme here:
https://www.albertcombrink.com/2013/05/05/casa-labia-morning-concert-series-presents-linvitation-au-voyage-french-music-for-cello-and-piano-sarah-acres-albert-combrink/

Read more about the song here:
https://www.albertcombrink.com/2013/06/30/dun-prison-reynaldo-hahn/

Gustave Caillebotte, Jeune homme à la fenêtre (Young man at the window), c. 1875 Gustave Caillebotte, Jeune homme à la fenêtre (Young man at the window), c. [read more…]

Live Video: D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn) – Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink2013-06-30T21:17:04+02:00

D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn)

2013-06-30T21:12:16+02:00

D’un Prison (1892) (Reynaldo Hahn, 1874 – 1947) to poetry by  Paul Verlaine (1844 – 1896)

A disturbingly static song at first hearing, D’un Prison paints a picture of a man who has an epiphany. Neither the naked Archimedes’ “Eureka” nor Oprah’s “Aha” moment, this is the quiet inner slice of time of a man who looks up over the roofs of Paris, and realises – perhaps for the first time – how simple life actually is, and asks himself what it was all for. On what had he spent his youth?

My God, My God, life is so simple and quiet”.

Venezuelan [read more…]

D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn)2013-06-30T21:12:16+02:00

Live Video: Je te Veux (Satie) – Sarah Acres (cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)

2013-06-30T17:07:37+02:00

Satie: Je te veux (Cello arr.), Sarah Acres (Cello), Albert Combrink (Piano)

Live Amateur Video recorded at the Casa Labia Cultural Center, Muizenberg, Cape Town, 13 June 2013

This version for Cello and Piano Arranged by Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink
Website: Sarah Acres – http://www.facebook.com/CellistInTheCity
Website: Albert Combrink – https://www.albertcombrink.com
Twitter: @albertcombrink

Read more about the original programme here:
French Cello Recital

Read more about the song here:
Satie’s “Je te Veux”

Artwork:
George Barbier: Fashion Illustration c.1914

George Barbier  (1882–1932) Fashion Illustration c.1914 George Barbier (1882–1932) Fashion Illustration c.1914

Proof that the work is [read more…]

Live Video: Je te Veux (Satie) – Sarah Acres (cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)2013-06-30T17:07:37+02:00
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