The Digital Hall - Online Concerts!
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High quality online concerts with fascinating lectures!
Music in Time
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Ashley Solomon Baroque Flute
A concert about clocks, sounds and ideas with virtuoso flutist Ashley Solomon. We will listen to Haydn and Mozart as they explore the relationship between humanity and mechanism, where music, science and emotions converge.
Love is in the Airs
With Cecilia Ensemble
Monteverdi/Byrd Selection of Madrigals
Whitacre Five Hebrew Songs
Holst Seven Part Songs Op. 44
Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer Op. 52
Arr. Yuval Shapira
“Without love, what is the point of springtime?” wondered Victor Hugo. Our springtime concert with the acclaimed Cecilia Ensemble, is a musical exploration of love throughout half a millennium.
His Master's Voice
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Haydn Quartet Op. 76 No. 5
Beethoven Quartet Op. 18 No. 1
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Busy Bees
Without presentation
Shuli Waterman viola
Bartok String Quartet no. 3
Beethoven String Quintet Op. 29
Bruckner String Quintet
Out of Character
Presentation Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Britten 3 Divertimenti
Schumann String Quartet Op. 41 No. 3
Oded Zehavi The Best of Us for string quartet
Borodin String Quartet No. 2
Three works inspired by real or fictional characters. What characters are hidden in Schumann's work? Which friend of Britten is represented in each of the divertimenti? And who was the source of inspiration hidden behind Borodin's beloved quartet?
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Goldberg Variations
J. S Bach
Yizhar Karshon
harpsichord / presentation
Shuli Waterman viola
Bach's sublime Goldberg Variations are considered one of the peaks of music of all time. Together with the harpsichordist Yizhar Karshon we will create a collage of colors and textures in a variety of combinations for strings and harpsichord.
A Musical Banquet
Without presentation
Daniel Ciobanu (Romania) Piano
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 3
Shostakovich Piano Quintet Op. 57
Schumann Piano Quintet Op. 44
In this concert we host the pianist Daniel Ciobanu, silver medalist and audience prizewinner at the Rubinstein Competition 2017, for a feast of musical delights.
Women in Music
Presentation Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet Op. 95 Serioso
Amy Beach String Quartet in One Movement Op. 89
Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818) String Quartet Op. 3 No. 2
Sarit Shley-Zondiner Shira for string quartet
For centuries, women have been marginalized in the realm of public music. But their presence was crucial, whether as a source of inspiration, as uncredited shapers of the cultural world, and sometimes, against all odds, as brilliant and groundbreaking composers.
Musical and Cinematic Notes
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 132
Beethoven’s monumental quartet is one of the most celebrated works of all time. How did it inspire composers, poets, authors and film directors in later times, and how does it continue to accompany us until the present?
Musica Britannica
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Joseph Haydn Quartet Op. 74 No. 3 "Rider"
John Dowland Come Again Sweet Love
Henry Purcell Chacony
Benjamin Britten Quartet No. 2 Op. 36
England was always an important musical center, but after its golden era in the 16th and 17th centuries, produced virtually no significant composers for nearly two centuries, relying instead on imported talent. In this concert we present a concise portrait of English music, from its early days of glory, to its revival by Elgar and Britten.
Authors of Note
Actors: Anna Dubrovitsky and Rodie Kozlovsky
Classical music in the writings of two Israeli literary giants: Leah Goldberg and S. Yizhar.
Music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Borodin, Dvorak and Chopin
Photo: Michael Pavia
Authors of Note
Actors: Anna Dubrovitsky and Rodie Kozlovsky
Videp editing: Roi Weinberg
From Vienna to Budapest
Without spoken presentation
Shuli Waterman viola
Vaughan Williams Fantasy Quintet
Franz Schubert Quartet D. 87
György Kurtág 12 Microludes for string quartet
Johannes Brahms String Quintet No. 1 Op. 88
An Austro-Hungarian musical experience, in which we perform György Kurtág’s brilliant briefMoments Mictoludes in between Schubert’s youthful masterpiece and Brahms’s nostalgichomage to masters of the past.
Baroque Avante-Guarde
Yizhar Karshon Presentation and Cembalo
Ophira Zakai Theorbo
Marco Uccellini - Bergamasca for two violins andcontinuo
Dario Castello - Sonata No. 10 for two violins and continuo
Tarquinio Merula - Ciaccona
Antonio Vivaldi - La Folia
C.P.E. Bach - Sanguines und Melancholicus
Johan Sebastian Bach - Concerto in D minor for Harpsichord BWV 1052
Presented by Yizhar Karshon, one of Israel’s most prominent baroque musicians, we will explore the virtuosity, emotional extremes and depth of the music written in that period, and perform some of the great masterpieces by Bach, Vivaldi, Castello, etc.
Musical Mimicry
Presented by Dr. Yoel Greenberg
Joseph Haydn Quartet Op. 33 No. 2 The Bird
Carlo Farina Capriccio Stravagante
Maurice Ravel Quartet in F Major
Does music represent nothing but music? We explore this question from the early baroque until the end of the nineteenth century, following instrumental music’s sources of inspiration and the associations it invoked – from instruments mimicking birds and animals so instruments mimicking one another.
On the Threshold of Romanticism
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 127
Schubert Quartettsatz D. 703
The 1820s saw two great composers break with the
classical tradition, each in his own way, paving the way
towards the romantic style.
La Contadina
Comic Opera in Two Acts
Composed by the 18th-century composer Johann Hasse
*Collaboration with the Jerusalem Opera and Piccolo Festival
Yizhar Karshon Presentation & Harpsichord
Gabriele Ribis Baritone and Director
Niva Eshed Frenkel Soprano
Filippo Rotondo Actor
Disguise, deceit, delightful success and dismal failure, cunning rustics, gullible aristocrats and Turkish pirates - all these combine to produce a sharp social critique in Hasse's delightful comic opera, one of the mid-eighteenth century's greatest hits.
Mozart and Salieri
Carmel Quartet and Malenki Theatre actors join forces to perform Pushkin's play "Mozart and Salieri"!
A human story of envy, rage and admiration in the face of unimaginable genius.
The wonderful Italian pianist Pietro Bonfilio will join a quartet to perform musical interludes by Mozart and Salieri, among them the exciting lacrimosa from the Requiem.
The Lark's Niggun
Without spoken presentation
Tal Samnon Piano
Haydn String Quartet Op. 64 No. 5 Lark
Kompaneets String Quartet No. 1 Jewish Melodies
Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 Op. 81
Two perennial masterpieces enclose Kompaneets deeply spiritual quartet.
A Life in Music
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Smetana String Quartet No. 1 From My Life
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8
The string quartet does not usually lend itself to program
music, but when it does, it is often deeply personal and autobiographical, as in these two masterpieces.
Songs of Praise Online!
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59 No. 2 Rasumovsky
Ives Scherzo for String Quartet
Haydn String Quartet Op. 76 No. 3 Emperor
When the most intimate of ensembles, the quartet,
plays the most extrovert of genres, national anthems,
there is always an interesting story to be told…
Songs of Praise On
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59 No. 2 Rasumovsky
Ives Scherzo for String Quartet
Haydn String Quartet Op. 76 No. 3 Emperor
When the most intimate of ensembles, the quartet,
plays the most extrovert of genres, national anthems,
there is always an interesting story to be told…
Who wrote the Kreutzer Sonata?
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Beethoven
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 Serioso
Janáček
String Quartet no. 1 Kreutzer Sonata
Beethoven’s dramatic and powerful musical language influenced composers, writers and thinkers. In his famous novella The Kreutzer Sonata, named after Beethoven’s great work, Tolstoy gave expression to the powerful influences he found in the music. Leoš Janáček, one of Czechoslovakia’s greatest composers, responded in turn to Tolstoy’s literary masterpiece with his First String Quartet, which carries the title of the book.
The Human Comedy
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Haydn
String Quartet Op. 33 No. 2, The Joke
Stravinsky
3 Pieces for String Quartet
Shostakovich
2 Pieces for String Quartet
Beethoven
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 Serioso (Finale)
What exactly is musical humor? Different composers have different answers! We shall play along with Haydn, visit Stravinsky’s circus, and discover how the tragic becomes comic with Beethoven and Shostakovich.
Family Portrait
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E Flat Major
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 80
In contrast to the way Felix Mendelssohn’s music was universally celebrated, the talent of his sister Fanny was suppressed throughout her life. Even today her works are seldom performed, despite their outstanding merit and despite her huge influence on Mendelssohn’s life and work. This concert will present a performance of Fanny Mendelssohn’s rarely-heard String Quartet together with a unique work by Felix in which he gives expression to his unbearable grief at her untimely death.
Discovering New Worlds
Presented by Prof. Yoel Greenberg
Dvorak String Quartet in F Major American
Dvorak's American quartet and America's musical story in the late 19th century in a multimedia concert.
