In a programme of Rachmaninoff: Piano trio “élégiaque” No. 1; Beethoven: Sonata for horn and piano Op. 17; Franz Strauss: Nocturne Op. 7 and Tchaikovsky: Piano trio Op. 50
With Artie’s Chamber Orchestra
Pierre Fouchenneret, violin
Alexandre Pascal, violin
Marie Chilemme, viola
Gauthier Herrmann, cello
Adrien Tyberghein, doublebass
Florent Pujuila, clarinet
Fleur Gruneissen, flute
Lola Descours, bassoon
Julien Desplanques, french horn
Sebastien Giot, oboe
Romain Descharmes, piano
In association with Alliance Française de Pune
Inaugurated in March 2008, the Artie’s Festival takes place every March and November thanks to Gauthier Herrmann who brings the finest young musicians, who are handpicked for the festival. The musicians all compare with the finest in Europe, they are all ready to play for a good cause and have an uncompromising love for India. Gauthier Hermann has been at the helm of the Artie’s festival for the past eight years.
The philosophy of the Artie’s Chamber Orchestra is to perform special arrangements for a chamber group of huge orchestral works which are not possible to perform without having the resource of a big orchestra and several rehearsals. Such music was arranged for special performances at the Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna which was founded by Arnold Schoenberg. The Society was dedicated to performing contemporary music at the highest possible level and included big orchestral and choral works like those of Mahler and Bruckner. The prospectus read ‘while the Society does not presently have the means to perform them in their original cast, for the time being, they can be reproduced only as arrangements for chamber orchestra (string quintet, piano, harmonium, flute, clarinet, etc.)’ .
