MUSICDAYS VIANDEN 2024 – OPENING CONCERT
MusicDays Vianden 2024
31.10. – 04.11.2024
Château, Ancien Cinéma, Église des Trinitaires
5e édition
For the fifth time, MusicDays is being held in Vianden, giving locals and visitors alike the chance to discover and enjoy a wide variety of musical genres and styles in a wide range of venues. Within the venerable walls of the castle, the opening concert on the theme of ‘Halloween and Dracula’ will undoubtedly be particularly well received. This will be followed by a jazz evening with trumpeter Daniel Migliosi, born in Esch in 2004, and his quartet at the Ancien Cinéma, a baroque music concert at the Eglise des Trinitaires, a transmedia project by The Aquatic Museum collective, including Claire Parsons and Laurent Peckels, a Halloween show for children designed and directed by Jenny Spielmann, and the closing concert at the château. Ancient and modern, short and long, dynamic and soothing will all be in balance, and the works selected will have something to suit almost every taste and age group.
Thursday 31/10 | 19:00 | Vianden Castle | Halloween – an evening with Dracula
Opening concert | Audience & musicians in costume | Welcome at 18:30 | Snacks and drinks | Texts in DE
Bram Stoker | Dracula – Reading of extracts from the novel (in DE)
Vittorio Monti | Czárdás | violin, cymbalum
Béla Bartók | 44 Duos Sz.98 (extr.) | 2 violons
Zoltán Kodály | Magyar Népdalok | cello, cymbalum
Béla Bartók | Danses populaires roumaines (extr.) | violon, cymbalum
Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 S 244/4
György Kurtág | 8 Duos op. 4 | violon, cymbalum
Philip Glass | Suite from the film score Dracula | arr. M. Riesmann | string quartet, double bass and piano
Nickel Bösenberg, actor
Béatrice Rauchs, piano
Luigi Gaggero, cymbalum
Sandrine Cantoreggi, violon
Gayané Grigoryan, violon
Susanne Martens, viola
Cyprien Keiser, cello
Choul-Won Pyun, double bass
Sounddelight, Light and sound
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At 6.30pm, Count Dracula will welcome his guests with snacks and drinks, and also invites the public to join in the fun in formal, spooky and chic attire.
What better subject for a Halloween concert than Count Dracula, the most famous vampire of all time? He’s the brainchild of author Bram Stoker, who never travelled to Transylvania. Stoker’s novel Dracula, published in 1897, has been adapted several times for the cinema. The 1931 silent film (starring Bela Lugosi) was given a new score by Philippe Glass in 1999. Kammerata Luxembourg performs the shorter version adapted by Riesman for string quartet, double bass and piano. Music from the film and traditional music from Transylvania contrast with passages from the novel read in German by Nickel Bösenberg. The cymbalum, a traditional instrument with struck strings, plays a major role in the folk music of Central and South-Eastern Europe, and will be particularly highlighted on this extraordinary evening.
Tickets
exclusively on www.musicdays.lu
Informations
www.musicdays.lu
info@castle-vianden.lu
tél : 83 41 08 1
In co-production with the municipal administration of Vianden and the Viandener Schlossfreunde.
With the valuable support of EWA Fiduciaire, Islek ohne Grenzen and Hotel Petry.
Photo © Jengel Klasen