The Hermanus Music Society’s second concert of this year will be held on Friday 28 February.
Guests can look forward to beautiful music from the Enchanted Realm. This includes two double concertos, by Vivaldi and Doppler, and unique arrangements of popular orchestral works (The Moldau, The Nutcracker and Prokofiev’s Cinderella) that many audiences would otherwise be unable to access in live performance. These works are performed exclusively by Viviamo per l’Arte ensemble with Nerina van Mayer on the flute and piccolo, Pam Wijnberg on the flute and Albie van Schalkwyk on the piano.
Enjoy this evening with Stettyn wine – the Guardian red wine when you listen to the symphonic poem by Bohemian composer Bedrich Smetana, evoking the flow of the Vltava River – or, in German, the Moldau, which begins as two small springs in the Bohemian woods. These springs join and become a mighty river, just as the three grape varietals in this wine (cabernet sauvignon, shiraz and petite syrah) are blended together. The wooded white Petra Chardonnay is immensely popular, as is the music from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. This wine is most frequently described as extremely smooth, also linking with Vivaldi’s concerto and its especially fluid melodies. Furthermore it is fruity and rounded, like Prokofiev’s melodious Cinderella, but there is also a steeliness as found in the Doppler concerto, which requires such technical mettle from the flute players.
For more information contact 072 447 0321 or send an email to hermanusmusicsociety@gmail.com
