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Thursday, December 12, 2019

The Songmaker's Trio

Antoinette Huyssen
On the 10th of November, the Stilbaai Music Society ended the year's activities with a GALA concert. Three very talented musicians, Antoinette Huyssen (soprano), Hans Huyssen (cellist) and prof. Albie van Schalkwyk, (piano) treated the Stilbaai audience with songs and music in a programme they called"Gesungen".  The programme consisted mostly of  music by Clara and Robert Schumann. The Schumanns were a two-career couple:  he a pioneering critic and one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, and she a leading concert pianist of Europe. The Trio performed their beautiful romantic music as well as pieces by Brahms and Mendelssohn.

Hans Huyssen
Die liedere vir die sopraan is uitstekend voorgedra deur Antoinette. Sy het n besondere ryk en sterk stem wat die hele saal kon vul en het die Lieder met passie kon oordra. Brahms se "An die Nachtegall" , en "Mainacht", het die gehoor betower.

Hans het veral verras met die stukke gekomponeer deur Robert Schumann - wat self op sy dae tjello gespeel het. Die Fünf Stücke im Volkston, opus 102 vir tjello en klavier, het o.a. groot byval gevind. Hy het sy vaardigheid meesterlik gewys op n tjello gemaak in 1782!

Albie van Schalkwyk
Albie van Schalkwyk needs no introduction. He is a much acclaimed and well-known pianist, and once again showed his mettle with a virtuoso rendering of Robert Schumann's Arabeske, opus 12 for solo piano, and with Hans, Felix Mendelssohn's Lied ohne Worte, opus 109 for cello and piano. He is a comfortable accompanist in touch with the singer.

Dit was n uitstekende idee van die kunstenaars om die lirieke en vertaling daarvan vir die gehoor in die hand te gee. Dit het beslis bygedra tot die genot van die aand.

When the silvery moon gleams through the bushes
and sheds its slumbering light on the grass
and the nightingale is fluting
I wander from bush to bush.
Covered by leaves, a pair of doves
coo to me their ecstasy; but I turn away........

The Songmaker's Trio was a delight, and deserved the standing ovation by an enthusiastic audience.

Louise en Bettie

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