Musical-literary Evening
6:00 pm Martin Hilský lecture on “Shakespeare and Music”
7:30 pm Korngold Quartet
Kristina H. Czajkowská / 1st violin
Lenka Koplová / 2nd violin
Klára Hegnerová / viola
David Hrubý / cello
Lucie Špičková / mezzo-soprano
Renata Ardaševová / piano
Program:
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String Quartet No. 3 D major Op. 34; Much Ado About Nothing Op. 11 for violin and piano
Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Martin Wiesner: 9 Shakespeare Songs for voice and pianoOp. 29 and 31 arranged for voice and string quartet
William Shakespeare, the literary patron of this year’s festival, will be most noticeably present at the Brno Monastery of Mercyful Brothers during a lecture on the topic of “Shakespeare and music” given by Professor Martin Hilský and the Korngold Quartet’s subsequent program consisting of the Shakespeare compositionsof Erich Wolfgang Korngold, a native of Brno and the winner of two Oscars.
