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Nash Ensemble Celebrates Alexander Goehr's 90th Birthday at Wigmore Hall

Mar. 10, 2022

On March 22, the Nash Ensemble performs a concert in celebration of Alexander Goehr's 90th birthday at Wigmore Hall. The performance includes the world premieres of Alexander Goehr's The Combat of Joseph Della Reina and the Devil for two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano and Four Pieces, in addition to Largo Siciliano and …around Stravinsky.

Of The Combat of Joseph Della Reina and the Devil, the composer notes:

"I translated and adapted this story from a 19th-century German evangelical journal based on a Hebrew text. It tells of a rabbi who wishes to purge the world of all evil. He plans to climb a mountain and overcome great obstacles to kill the devil. Despite consulting with elders, various angels and arch angels who all tell him the task is beyond human endeavour, he succeeds and captures the devil, but he has failed to carry out literally the instructions of the arch angels and so he himself becomes the devil. After some 25 years with the text I have settled on an ensemble of tenor (the rabbi) and three women’s voices (successively his disciples, archangels and finally the devil) with piano and viola."


(...around Stravinsky/Alexander Goehr/The Nash Ensemble)

To learn more about Alexander Goehr, visit: schott-music.com.

Alexander Goehr
The Combat of Joseph Della Reina and the Devil 
for two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, viola, and piano
25'

Largo Siciliano
(2012)
trio for violin, horn, and piano
20'

...around Stravinsky (2002)
for violin and wind quartet
10'

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