FAST FINGERS - Pianists Trần Diệu Linh and Trần Diệu Ân will perform in the “Chamber Music Night” concert at the HCM City Opera House on June 15. Photo courtesy of HBSO

Soloists from the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) and guest musicians will give a performance of chamber music composed by the world’s great composers at the Opera House on June 15.

The “Chamber Music Night” concert will open with Symphony for Brass op. 80 by Dutch composer Jan Koetsier.

The work was commissioned by British trumpeter Philip Jones, and premiered in Regensburg, Germany, in 1980. It was recorded in 1981 on “Focus on PJBE”, an album by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Today, it is considered a masterpiece of the brass band.

Pianist Trần Diệu Linh, who is known for her finger speed, will continue the night with La Valse (The Waltz), written by French composer Maurice Ravel between 1919 and 1920.

Linh and her sibling, pianist Trần Diệu Ân, will highlight Main Theme and Dance of the Little Swans from classical ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Saber Dance from ballet Gayane by Aram Khachaturian.

The concert will also include Terzetto by French composer and oboist Theodore Lalliet featuring oboist Phạm Khánh Toàn, bassoonist A Tách and Korean pianist Ju Sun Young (piano).

After the intermission will be emotional melodies of Moments Musicaux (Musical Moment) No. 1 and 4 from a set of six solo piano pieces named Six Moments Musicaux by great composer Sergei Rachmaninov in 1896.

The performance will present pianist Diệu Ân.

The evening’s final piece, Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, will be played by two violinists Tăng Thành Nam and Phạm Trường Sơn, violist Ivan Nekliudov, cellist Phạm Thị Thanh Hoài and pianist Phạm Quỳnh Trang.

The four-movement quintet was first performed in Prague in 1888, using typical folk music instruments. It is one of the most characteristic and successful of Dvorak's chamber works, and one of the most frequently played pieces of chamber music in the world.

The concert will begin at 8pm at 7 Lam Sơn Square in District 1. Tickets are available at the box office. — VNS