Concerts/Events/Radio
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
St Serf's Church, Edinburgh
7.45pm Sunday 11th June 2023 includes Hans Gál's Cello Concerto The Meadows Orchestra William Schofield (cello), Cecilia Weston (conductor) www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/edinburgh/inverleith-st-serfs-church/meadows-chamber-orchestra/e-avgpox Govan & St. Linthouse Parish Church, Glasgow 7.30pm Wednesday 15th June 2023 Westfest: Composers in Exile includes Hans Gál's Violin Concertino The Glasgow Barons Hector Scott (violin), Paul MacAlindin (conductor) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/west-fest-composers-in-exile-tickets-598469387047 Mountain View Church, Boulder, Colorado, USA 7.30pm Wednesday 17th May 2023 Colorado Mahlerfest: Opera& More: Wagner & Gál includes US premiere of Hans Gál's 4th Symphony conducted by Kenneth Woods mahlerfest.org/mf36/opera-and-more/ PAST EVENTS
Rokkatei Fukinoto Hall, Sapporo, Japan 24th September 2022, 18:00pm includes Hans Gal Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Op.84 Yasuyak Kono (clarinet) and Chika Ianoka (piano) www.kyobun.org/fes_schedule_detail.php Aberdeen Chamber Music Concerts Monday 19th September 2022, 7.30pm includes Hans Gal Three Marionettes op.74 for piano duo Sarah Beth Briggs and James Lisney www.aberdeenchambermusic.org/programme/ EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Saturday 6th August 2022, 11:00am Hans Gál: Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello op.104 Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen (septet version) Louise Farrenc: Nonet Philharmonia Chamber Players Sunday 13th March 2022, 15:00 Stockbridge Parish Church, Edinburgh, UK
Mozart: Clarint Quintet Hans Gál: Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and Cello op.93 Glazunov: Reverie Oreintale Weber: Clarinet Quintet Ensemble Burletta Monday 14th March 2022, 19:30
The Sanctuary, Queens Cross Church, Aberdeen, UK Mozart: Clarint Quintet Hans Gál: Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and Cello op.93 Glazunov: Reverie Oreintale Weber: Clarinet Quintet Ensemble Burletta Thursday 29th October 2020: 19:00 GMT Webinar: Hans Gál: an insprational life Streamed from Seattle, USA With contributions from Eva Fox-Gál and Simon Fox-Gál Access link: www.musicofremembrance.org/concert/webinar-hans-gal-inspirational-life Thursday 29th October 2020: 18:00 GMT Prizegiving concert for Hans Gál Prize given by the Academy of Sciences & Literature Mainz and the state foundation Villa Musica Streamed from Mainz, Germany The Esme Quartet (winners of the prize) Programme includes Hans Gál's Five Intermezzi Op.10 Access link: www.adwmainz.de Sunday 24th May 2020, 20:03 CET
Rebroadcast of live recording of Hans Gál's opera Die Heilige Ente (The Sacred Duck) from Heidelberg www.swr.de/swr2/programm/swr2-oper-uebersicht-100.html www.phonostar.de/radio/swr2/live Live broadcast from Heidelberg of opening night of Hans Gál's opera Die heilige Ente (The Sacred Duck)
Saturday 7th March 2020, 19:05 Violin Concertino 19.30 Die heilige Ente Deutschlandfunkkultur.de www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/programmvorschau.282.de.html Die Heilige Ente Fully-staged OPERA by Hans Gál
Theater & Orchester Heidelberg, Germany 7th March 2020 - performance with live broadcast [took place]
13th March 2020 - CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS 30th March 2020 - CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS 17 April 2020 - CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS 23 April 2020 - CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS 5 May 2020 - CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS 9th May 2020 - CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS Die Heilige Ente (The Sacred Duck) was Gál's most successful opera, performed extensively before the banning of Gál's works by the Nazis in 1933. This revival in 2020 follows the widely acclaimed performances and subsequent recording of Das Lied der Nacht in Osnabruck in 2017. www.theaterheidelberg.de/produktion/die-heilige-ente/ Sunday 19th May 2019, 19.30
Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria includes Hans Gál Piano Concertino op.43 Gottlieb Wallisch: Piano, Franz-Liszt-Kammerorchester, Conductor: Wieland Hofmann konzerthaus.at/concert/eventid/57288
October 31st 2019, 7pm, Hinde Street Methodist Church W1, London UK London Song Festival: The Exiled Outsiders A programme of songs by Hans Gál and Peter Gellhorn, including Hans Gál's Five Songs op.33 and readings from his internment diary, Music Behind Barbed Wire with Simon Wallfisch - baritone, Madeleine Bradbury-Rance – soprano, Nigel Foster – piano, Barbara Gellhorn – speaker De Profundis Op.50
Large-scale cantata by Hans Gál for mixed chorus and orchestra November 25th 2017, 8pm Altstädter Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Martin-Luther-Platz, Erlangen, Germany Münchner Bachsolisten, Bachchor Erlangen, Conductor Wieland Hofmann DAS LIED DER NACHT Fully-staged OPERA by Hans Gál
29th April, 5th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 23rd & 25th May 2017 Theater Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany Last performed in 1930, and banned by Hitler along with all Gál’s music, Das Lied Der Nacht is a powerful romantic drama, set in 12th century Palermo. It shows Gál at the height of his musical power as an operatic composer. Premièred in Breslau in 1926, it was hailed as “one of the most powerful operatic experiences ever!” Das Lied der Nacht preview: vimeo.com/215983662 DAS LIED DER NACHT (Song of the Night) Sunday 4th June 2017 The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, UK Concert-staged OPERA by Hans Gál presented by the Hans Gál Society with Emma Morwood (soprano), Janet de Vigne (soprano), Judy Brown (alto), Luke Sinclair (tenor), Mark Saberton (baritone), Marcin Gesla (bass) Chorus & Orchestra of the Canongait Conductor: Robert Dick ![]()
19:05, Saturday 6th May 2017
Radio Broadcast: Hans Gál's opera Das Lied der Nacht
Deutschlandfunk Kultur www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/hans-gals-oper-das-lied-der-nacht-aus-der-zeit-gefallen.1091.de.html 2016
Sunday 13th November 2016, 3.30pm, Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, UKSunday 5th June, 2016, 3:p.m. in the Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds, and Friday 10th June, 2016. 7:30 p.m. in the National Centre for Early Music, York. Make once more my heart thy home: The Choral Music of Hans Gál. Clothworkers Consort of Leeds, directed by Bryan White. The programme will include Gál's Motette, op.19; Epigramme. op.27; Four partsongs for mixed voices; Drei Gesänge op.37; Four Madrigals for mixed voices, op.51, as well as works by Schütz, Haydn, Schumann, and Brahms. Part of the Series: Performing the Jewish Archive 8th May 2016, Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. Winds of Edinburgh. Mozart: Wind Quintet in E flat K452 Parry: Nonet in B flat op.70 Gál: Divertimento op.22. 13th & 14th March 2016, The Sanctuary at Queen’s Cross, Aberdeen, UK Special Celebration of the Life and Music of Hans Gál. The star-studded line-up included Leon McCawley, Fraser Kelman, Sarah Beth Briggs, Judy Brown and the Edinburgh Quartet. The two day event was promoted by Aberdeen Chamber Music Concerts. 2015 Friday, 16th October, 2015, Rathaus, Zittau, Germany Zittau's Europera Youth Ochestra performed Gál's Burlesque (op. 42b) from his opera Die beiden Klaas, together with works by Bizet, Martinů and Dvořák. Zittau is a 'three-state area', situated near the borders of Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland, and Europera is a tri-national youth orchestra which performs works by ostracised composers such as Gál and Martinů. Therewas also an exhibition relating to Hans Gál, provided by the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Rostock. 16th June, 2015, ORF Radio Café, Vienna, Austria Echo des Unerhörten: Ein Jahrhundert Musik – Zum 125. Geburtstag von Hans Gál 125th Anniversary concert focusing on Hans Gál as part of the series Echo des Unerhörten, which includes platform discussions on the featured composers. Programme: Piano Trio op.18, Concertino for Flute & String Quartet Op.82, Huyton Suite Op.92, Lyrical Suite for flute, soprano and string quartet Zwei Geistliche Gesänge Op.21 for soprano, cello and piano 7th June 2015, The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, UK Edinburgh Quartet & Glasgow Chamber Choir Celebrate Gál Special concert to celebrate Hans Gál's 125th anniversary year. A unique concert featuring exceptionally beautiful and rarely heard works. It is supported by the Hope Scott Trust, Sir Gerald Elliott and the Hans Gál Society. Edinburgh Quartet, Glasgow Chamber Choir, Patricia Rozario OBE (soprano), Juliette Bausor (flute) Nikita Naumov (double bass), Michael Bawtree (conductor & piano) Gál: Lyrical Suite for solo soprano, flute & string quartet Gál: Motet for mixed choir a capella Gál: Nachtmusik for solo soprano, men’s choir, flute, cello & piano Schubert: Gott Im Ungewitter for mixed choir & piano Mendelssohn: Venezianisches Gondellied for soprano & piano Mendelssohn: Neue Liebe for soprano & piano Gál: Of a Summer Day for solo soprano, women’s choir, & strings 12th February 2015, Konzerthaus, Berlin, Germany Komponistenporträt Hans Gál includes Gál's Huyton Suite, Nachtmusik, What A Life! & Piano Trio Op.18 With Nicola Proksch (soprano), Jonathan Winell (tenor), Antje Schurrock (flute), Ralf Forster (clarinet), Thomas Böttcher (violin), Anna Babenko (violin), Felix Korinth (viola), Friedemann Ludwig (cello), Anna Kirichenko (piano) For more info: www.konzerthaus.de 1st February 2015, Konzerthaus, Berlin, Germany Concert included Gál's recently published 'Wittgenstein' Piano Quartet in A for Piano (left-hand), Violin, Viola and Cello. Thomas Böttcher (violin), Linda Fichtner (violin), Felix Korinth (viola), Nikolaus HanjohrßPopa (cello), Anna Kirichenko (piano) 31st January 2015, Guildford, UK Concert: Gál's Idyllikon for orchestra, alongside Vaughan Williams, Barber and Sibelius. Surrey Mozart Players conducted by Kenneth Woods 7.30pm, Saturday 31st January, The Electric Theatre, Guildford, Surrey For more info: www.surreymozartplayers.com 29th January 2015, |