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.

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Elena Urioste violin; Tom Poster piano

Wigmore Hall

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.

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

Following the Frankfurt concerts, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra with Ivan Repušić will be appearing at the Beethovenfest Bonn. In addition to an overture by Dora Pejačević, the program includes the world premiere of a new work for violin, cello, piano and orchestra by the Catalan composer Ferran Cruixent, which was commissioned by the Beethovenfest, as well as Antonín Dvořák's 8th Symphony.

Beethovenfest Bonn

Theater Bonn Opera House

A Beethoven as one hardly knows him: The Triple Concerto is an artistic piece full of charm and esprit, it is irritatingly understated, gallant, delicate. And it needs three soloists who look after each other - because only in balance can the full feeling of happiness arise. So it makes sense to invite the Sitkovetsky Trio to play this solitary Beethoven. The piano trio, founded in 2007 by violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky, impresses with its sophistication in interplay, its outstanding playing culture - and its experience with Beethoven's sound world. The three musicians are currently recording all of Beethoven's trio works for CD. In addition to Beethoven, the program now includes Dvořák's 8th Symphony, the work with which the Bohemian broke away from his role model Brahms and which - not unlike the Triple Concerto - has an unusual weightlessness and poetry within it. The conductor is the Croatian Ivan Repušić, who is currently at home with the Munich Radio Orchestra, but who is also in the starting blocks as chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Weimar and general music director of the Leipzig Opera.

feeling of happiness

Bertramstraße 8

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

"Laurel sounds, part two. And again, old and new, familiar and rediscovered, are mixed together. Instruments begin to sing, transforming into Mozart's Papageno, Konstanze and Tamino. We meet the American Charles Martin Loeffler, born in Berlin in 1861, whose compositions mainly contain traces of Debussy, Franck and Chausson, but also a little Eastern European folk music. We marvel at the late romantic reed songs of Wagner fan August Klughardt, in which a lot of Fauré can be heard. And we discover Dora Pejačević, daughter of a Croatian count and a Hungarian baroness: a composer who later lived mainly in Dresden and Munich and whose style is close to that of Rachmaninoff. Finally, we also get to know the cellist and composer Alfredo Piatti, who lived in London for a long time and for whom Mendelssohn - so it is said - wanted to write a cello concerto. This never happened; this was probably not due to Piatti, who only died in 1901 at the age of 79.

Dora Pejačević

Events

Upcoming events

May 25, 2025

winner of the ARD Music Competition · SWR Symphonieorchester

May 25, 2025

winner of the ARD Music Competition · SWR Symphonieorchester

Past events

Dec 8, 2024

Elena Urioste violin; Tom Poster piano · Wigmore Hall

Nov 8, 2024

Glowing colours and grand passions · BBC Symphony Orchestra

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