Tuesday, 4/29/2025
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On a Treasure Hunt – That the Starnberg cellist Raphaela Gromes and the Munich pianist Julian Riem are on the same wavelength was apparent to both of them from the first notes of their collaboration at the Richard Strauss Competition in 2012 – just one of the competition victories of the "Rising Star" cellist with her irresistibly contagious enthusiasm. Since then, they have also embarked on adventurous paths through the repertoire together, as in the current program, which focuses on female composers from different eras of music history.

While Nadia Boulanger is recognized as the queenmaker of modernity, and a personality like Lera Auerbach is valued as highly as a composer as she is as a virtuoso, at the time, Clara Wieck's father had every reason to worry that his genius daughter would sacrifice her talents to the ambitions of her admirer Schumann. Clara Schumann's friend Pauline Viardot-Garcia was acknowledged as a benchmark-setting opera singer – but who knows her extensive chamber music oeuvre?

Even at the turn of the century, there was still much groundwork left for the studied composer and conductor Elisabeth Kuyper, who contributed significantly to the founding of the first predominantly female ensembles in the 1910s and 1920s. Therefore, the guest appearance of Gromes and Riem offers a wealth of valuable discoveries, handpicked from the catalog of the 23 female composers spanning nine centuries that the cellist selected for the project "Femmes," which was also released as a double album. And the press response is unanimous: "Femmes is an artistically first-class treasure chest. And a decisive step for the music world – forward!" (hr2-kultur)

Since 2016, Raphaela Gromes has been an exclusive artist with Sony Classical. Her albums have all appeared in the top 10 of the German classical charts and have been awarded, among others, the prize of the German Record Critics, the OPUS KLASSIK, and the Diapason d’Or.

Program:
FEMMES
Lera Auerbach, 6 Preludes for Cello and Piano op. 47
Henriëtte Bosmans, Sonata for Cello and Piano in A minor
Clara Schumann, Three Romances for Violin and Piano op. 22 (arr. Riem)
Pauline Viardot-Garcia, 3 Pieces from "Six Morceaux" VWV 3003 (arr. Riem)
Elisabeth Kuyper, Ballade in G minor op. 11 (arr. Riem)
Nadia Boulanger, Trois Pièces for Cello and Piano

Raphaela Gromes, cello
Julian Riem, piano

With kind support from the Friends and Sponsors of the Albert Concerts e.V.

EUR 49,- / 39,- / 27,- including fees

Raphaela Gromes | Photo © wildundleise

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