Aspect Presents: Rachmaninoff & Franck

Our friends at Aspect Chamber Music Series have offered up a set of 20 tickets to their upcoming concert on Thursday, April 13th at 7:30pm at the beautiful Bohemian National Hall. This concert will feature the music of Rachmaninoff & Franck, as performed by Leonard Elschenbroich on cello and Alexei Grynyuk on piano. As is tradition at all Aspect performances, an illustrated talk will accompany the performance, this time by musicologist Nicholas Chong. A free reception will follow the performance, including wine and light fare.

Here's what Aspect writes about the program:

We like to portray great artists as ahead of their time, boldly pushing into new, uncharted regions, shocking their contemporaries, and only being vindicated by posterity. But sometimes it happens the other way round. In his own time, Sergey Rachmaninov was dismissed as hopelessly old-fashioned, a shameless nostalgist, a composer of ‘film music’ (not good). But today his star is higher than ever, while many of his up-to-date detractors are forgotten. Why? Because his music is so authentic and deeply felt – and who ever wrote better, more ripely expressive melodies? Nearly a century earlier, César Franck was an outsider in French music. Born in Belgium (also not good), he had the temerity to compose in abstract, ‘German’ forms such as symphony and sonata, not opera, the French form par excellence. Yet as time passed, the sheer, impassioned beauty of what he wrote won over his critics, and the next generation of young French masters all acknowledged him as a father figure. Celebrate with us a beauty that defies time and trend as we hear Rachmaninov’s darkly soulful Cello Sonata, and Franck’s gorgeous Violin Sonata in a very persuasive arrangement for cello and piano.

More information about this event, including bios for the performers, can be found on the Aspect website.

Groupmuse ticket buyers are instructed to pick up their tickets at the Will Call in the 30 minute prior to the performance. Groups wishing to sit together are instructed to purchase tickets under a single reservation, as seating is assigned.

What's the music?

Leonard Elschenbroich Cello

Alexei Grynyuk Piano

Attendees

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Annie B.

Chris C.

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Alan L.

Stephen W.

Douglas C.

Lucy Z.

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Andrew J.

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Cynthia G.

Anton M.

Nick K.

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Luis V.

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Ellen Horan P.

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Sharon R.

Shanker S.

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Keith C.

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William P.

Jennifer C.

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Paula W.