ALFRED KREN

SCHEDULE OF CONCERTS AT THE GALERIE ALFRED KREN

(with the exception of the 1987 concert, all concerts at the gallery were co-jointly conceived and organised by Alfred Kren and Michael Gregor Scholl, sometimes to complement a specific exhibition, most markedly the Georg Kröll/Giacinto Scelsi concert in the middle of the Boliw - Shrine Figures of the Bamana, Mali show)

1987

May 30:                 Violin Soundings: Malcolm Goldstein, Soundings for Erik Satie

St.-Apern-Straße 20 John Cage, Eight Whiskus

                                Malcolm Goldstein, Out of the corner of my eyes

                              John Cage, Chorals (after Erik Satie)

                                Malcolm Goldstein, violin

1988

Antwerpener Straße 42

June 12:                   Matinée:

                                Max Reger, Suite in D minor, opus 131 for solo violoncello

                                Michael Gregor Scholl, Pentotita for violoncello

                                Miyazumi Orso, Bunraku for solo violoncello

Guido Schiefen, violoncello

Sept. 25:                 Matinée:

with works by Domenico Scarlatti, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Louis-Claude

                                Daquin, Sofia Gubaidulina, Torbjörn Lundquist, Hans Brehme, Igor

Stravinsky

                                Edwin Alexander Buchholz, concert accordion

Nov. 13:                   Georg Kröll, Zweigesänge für zwei Klarinetten (1987)

                                Giacinto Scelsi, Ixor I (1956) and Ixor III for B-clarinet

Beate Zelinsky and David Smeyers, clarinets

1989

June 25:                   Matinée:

                                  with works by Carlos de Seixas, Ludwig van Beethoven,

 Franz Liszt, Serge Prokofieff, and Alexander Scriabin

Friedrich Höricke, pianist

Oct. 6    :                   Premiere performance:

Michael Gregor Scholl, “über glitzernden Kies, Ein Sternentraum für Mezzosopran,

Violine, Clarinetten und prepariertes Pianoforte nach zweimal sieben Gedichten

                                  von Else Lasker-Schüler”

Margarethe Bittner, mezzosoprano

                                  Peter Daniel, violin

                                  David Smeyers, clarinet

                                  Peter Bortfeldt, prepared pianoforte

1990

June 1    :                   Soirée:

                                  G. Ph. Telemann, Fantasia in A minor for flute

                                  K. Penderecki, “Capriccio” for solo tuba (1980)

                                  Improvisation for didgeridoo

                                  B. Wefelmeyer, 7:8 for cimbasso (1979)

                                  Improvisation for prepared tuba

                                  M. Kagel, “mirum” for solo tuba (1964)

                                  Klaus Burger, bass tuba, contrabass tuba, cimbasso and didgeridoo

Nov. 18:                     Soirée:

                                  Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Sonata for solo viola (1955)

                                  Georg Kröll, Capriccio for solo viola (1987/1990)

                                  (premiere performance of the revised score)

                                  Johannes Kalitzke, Flucht im Gewölbe (1988/1990)

                                    Spiral for viola solo and digital space simulation

                                    (premiere performance of the revised score)

                                    Eckart Schloifer, viola

                                  Johannes Kalitzke, piano

PRIVATE CONCERT AT ALFRED KREN, 8 EAST HEATH ROAD, LONDON

(conceived and organised by Alfred Kren, with a nod to Edwin Alexander Buchholz, whose 1988 concert at the Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne still resonates after all these years, as others do, too)

Friday 1 September 2017

6:30 pm

Richard Stagg

shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute)

Honshirabe

3:53 min

Shingetsu

4:49 min

Daha

4:44 min

Akita no Sugagaki

10:32 min

Kumoi Jishi

5:37 min

Tsuru no Sugomori

6:21 min

intermission

Krisztián Palágyi

concert accordion

Jean-Philippe Rameau ( 1683 - 1764 ) – Piéces de clavecin  

 - Les Cyclopes

- Le rappel des Oiseaux

- L’égyptienne

 10 min

Alfred Schnittke ( 1934 - 1998 ) - Revis Fairy Tale 

 - Chichikov's Childhood

- Walzer 

- Polka

  6 min

Luciano Berio ( 1925 – 2003 ) – Sequenza XIII ( chanson)

8 min

 Sergey Viotenko (*1958 ) – Revelation     

5 min 

 Sofia Gubaidulina ( *1931 )  - De Profundis  

 12 m