Revolutions aren’t always noisy – and as the world around them broke up in war and turmoil, Dora Pejačević and Karol Szymanowski let their imaginations soar, creating beauty that still thrills and ravishes today. The young Strauss pictures eternity, and Richard Wagner writes a wordless poem to the love of his life: music so intimate that it almost feels as if we shouldn’t be listening.

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Glowing Colours and Grand Passions

Barbican Centre

Glowing colours and grand passions

Original programming has become a hallmark of the Collective’s identity, one that has garnered the versatile ensemble highly positive reviews and a substantial following. Set amongst familiar works in a programme with an overall Eastern European/folk-influenced theme is a 1925 piece by the increasingly admired Croatian Dora Pejačević.

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Wigmore Hall

Majors & Minors: Music for strings and piano by Brahms, Mozart and Dora Pejačević

Chandler Center for the Arts

Anthony Bock presents a piano recital of a snapshot of classical music from around the western world during the 1920s. Enjoy works from Croatia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Student Degree Recital: Anthony Bock, Collaborative Piano DMA Performance Recital (pre-candidacy)

University of Maryland

River Rhapsodies IV

Clinton School of Public Service

From the hillsides of Transylvania, shepherds’ horns echo and resound. Gustav Mahler contemplates personal tragedy, then fights his way – through waltzes, storms and a heartfelt musical love letter – to life, hope and triumph. And Dora Pejačević dreams out loud, in a neglected, impassioned masterpiece haunted by the shadows of the Great War.

Oramo conducts Mahler 2023

Award-winning German pianist Martin Helmchen makes his Proms debut as soloist in Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto, a vast work full of mercurial mood swings and technical demands. The concerto’s late-Romantic spirit and generous scope find an echo in Dora Pejačević’s Symphony in F sharp minor, richly scored and resplendent with brass. Composed during the First World War, when Pejačević worked as a nurse, the work receives its Proms premiere by Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra following their critically acclaimed recording.

Prom 40: Martin Helmchen plays Brahms

Royal Albert Hall

John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic return to the Proms for Rachmaninov’s First Symphony. Dame Sarah Connolly joins them for songs by Alma Mahler-Werfel and Dora Pejačević.

Prom 33: Rachmaninov, Mahler-Werfel and Pejačević

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jaime Martín present Holst’s epic suite The Planets alongside works by Grace Williams and Dora Pejačević.

Prom 32: Holst’s The Planets

Awarded ‘Trailblazer’ status by the Royal Philharmonic Society for their lockdown creativity and described by The Sunday Times as ‘classical music's most multitalented new power couple’, the duo presents two major sonatas alongside smaller pieces by the rediscovered genius of Dora Pejačević.

Dora Pejačević

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 8, 2024

Elena Urioste violin; Tom Poster piano · Wigmore Hall

Past events

Nov 8, 2024

Glowing Colours and Grand Passions · Barbican Centre

Nov 8, 2024

Glowing colours and grand passions · BBC Symphony Orchestra

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