Ludwig Chamber Players

The LCP musicians come from 6 nations. They have dedicated themselves to the diversity of chamber music for mixed string and wind ensembles from the 18th to the 20th centuries, as well as collaborations with current composers.

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News

/2020

Today 20:03pm on SWR2

Feb 15, 2020

Today our concert from Ettlingen January 26. will broadcast at SWR2 Abendkonzert.

SWR CLASSIC

Jan 20, 2020

We had a great time with many pupils and our Beethoven Experiment in collaboration with Jasmin Bachmann and the SWR Stuttgart. For more impressions visit the SWR CLASSIC site.

New Mozart CD

Oct 27, 2019

TACET released our new Album Works for clarinet by the famous viennies composer Mozart.

Collaboration with ihwa Stuttgart

May 15, 2019

Collaboration with the Intern.-Hugo-Wolf-Akademie for #BTHVN2020 and concerts in January 2020

Calendar Sheet January 2015

Jan 19, 2015

Ludwig Chamber Players present the January Calendar Sheet with music by Johannes Brahms and pictures from the Hakone Open Air Museum. Recordet at LCP concerts and rehearsals 2014.
Johannes Brahms, Capriccio op. 76 No. 2 arr. M. Ucki
Sculpures from Hakone Open Air Museum by Barry Flangan, Francesco Messina, Henry Moore, Niki de Saint Phalle, Antony Gormley

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excerpts from the booklet by Dirk Altmann

In the many years of preparation for this production I kept asking myself, what was everyday life like for a musician in the 18th century? What drove Mozart, what might his relationship with his colleagues have been like? Were there fundamental differences, apart from technological developments, from today’s music scene?

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01/ 19:30 Stadthalle Singen

Beethoven 2020 with the singer Ilker

31.01. / 19:30 Stuttgart Neues Schloss, Weißer Saal

in collaboration with the Hugo-Wolf-Akademie #BTHVN2020 with the singer Ilker Arcayürek

26/ 18:00 Schloss Ettlingen

#BTHVN2020 with the singer Ilker Arcayürek

25.01. / 19:30 Zehtscheuer Entringen

Beethoven Septet u.a.

22.01 / 20:00 Bühl Stadthalle

22. january 20:00 #BTHVN2020 with singer Ilker Arcayürek

20 – 22.01. / The Beethoven experiment

Education program in collaboration with the SWR Stuttgart in Tübingen, Ulm and Baden-Baden

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#BTHVN2020

“An die ferne Geliebte” with tenor Ilker Arcayürek

Our current project is in collaboration with the Int.-Hugo-Wolf-Akademie and viennies singer Ilker Arcayürek. Composer and arranger Andreas N. Tarkmann did a poetic arrangement for singer and ensemble from Beethoven song circle “An die ferne Geliebte” for us.

For the big anniversary, of course, the septet should not be missing in the program. A chamber music masterpiece that is still a great pleasure even after more than 200 years.

In our program you can discover Beethoven from his cheerful and sentimental side.

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Ilker Arcayürek

Austrian tenor Ilker Arcayürek has emerged as one of the most exciting and versatile vocal artists in recent years -hailed by the press for his golden tenor (Opera Now Magazine) and quickly establishing himself “in a class of his own” (The Guardian). He is a winner of the International Art Song Competition of Germany’s Hugo Wolf Academy and was BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. Champs Hill Records released his first solo album “Der Einsame” featuring Schubert songs and accompanied by Simon Lepper in 2017 to great critical

www.ilkertenor.com

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Members

Kei Shirai, violin (Japan)
Emily Körner, violin (Canada)
Janis Lielbardis, viola (Latvia)
Gen Yokosaka, violoncello (Japan)
Ryutaro Hei, bass (Japan)

Sébastian Jacot, flute (Swiss)
Philippe Tondre, oboe (France)
Dirk Altmann, clarinet (Germany)
Hanno Dönneweg, bassoon (Germany)
Wolfgang Wipfler, horn (Germany)

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Kei Shirai, violin (Japan)
Emily Körner, violin (Canada)
Janis Lielbardis, viola (Latvia)
Gen Yokosaka, violoncello (Japan)
Ryutaro Hei, bass (Japan)

Sébastian Jacot, flute (Swiss)
Philippe Tondre, oboe (France)
Dirk Altmann, clarinet (Germany)
Hanno Dönneweg, bassoon (Germany)
Wolfgang Wipfler, horn (Germany)

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Impressum

The Ludwig Chamber Players (LCP) have, in a short time, become one of the leading chamber ensembles on the international concert stage. The musicians of the ensemble come from Japan, Latvia, France, Switzerland, Canadia and Germany. They are principal players with the SWR Symphonie Orchester, Stuttgart and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, as well as the Saito Kinen (Director Seiji Ozawa), Budapest and Bayreuth Festival Orchestras. In addition, the musicians are winners of prestigious competitions including ARD (German TV), the Geneva International Music Competition, the Carl Nielsen Flute Competition and many more.
The first time that this ensemble of award-winning soloists got together was in spring 2013. The musicians were preparing for their first performance together at the prestigious Tokyo Spring Festival. After just a few bars, they knew they wanted to carry on working together. At the subsequent concerts in Tokyo and Osaka, the ensemble was received euphorically by the public. The Ludwig Chamber players have dedicated themselves to the wide variety of chamber music for mixed string and wind ensembles from the 18th and 19th centuries. But works by contemporary composers also find their way into their programmes.
Since then the ensemble has recorded its debut CD of the Septet by its namesake, Ludwig van Beethoven, with the German audiophile label, TACET. The reviewer noted:
…in the Beethoven we are immediately impressed by the musical spark that isn’ t just present to a great extent in the music itself, but also in the way that the musicians ap- proach everything with joy and subtlet y. Everything is alive …
Invitations followed in 2014 to international festivals, including several concerts at the festival “La Folle Journée au Japon” in Tokyo. The Tokyo concert was transmitted by the Japanese broadcaster NHK. Besides further concerts in Japanese cities, LCP also travelled to Japan’s southernmost prefec- ture, Okinawa. Here, in addition to concerts, education projects and masterclasses were also scheduled.
With the publication of this CD, the LCP will undertake its first tour of Germany. On the way to Bonn, Beethoven’s bir thplace, the ensemble will perform in the Stuttgart Liederhalle, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Berlin Konzerthaus.

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Mozart’s Viennese years from 1781 were characterized by a great spirit of reform arising from the revolutions in America and France, an aspiring bourgeoisie and secularisation, along with numerous social reforms under Emperor Joseph. The Age of Enlightenment reached its peak in 1789 with the Declaration of Human and Civil Rights in the French National Assembly. Mozart understood like no other how to capture this social shift in his compositions. He was the most fashionable artist with the Emperor, at the royal court, in bourgeois salons and amongst street musicians. Neither later composers nor the pop icons of today have achieved such popularity among all levels of society.

With Kei Shirai, our Japanese-Viennese concertmaster, we have tried to make Mozart’s euphoria and sense of fun at disrupting traditional ways of making music audible in each bar, with each phrasing and articulation. In the quintet, the clarinet sweeps away the classical phrase introduced by the venerable string quartet right at the beginning with a “Haydnesque joke.” After that, it torments the first violin, makes demands of the other instruments in terms of dynamics and agility, only in the next bar to blend quite naturally with the string sound. In the concerto, the clarinet takes the place of a small opera ensemble, from lyrical soprano cantilenas, through virtuoso mezzo coloraturas, to a laughing commentary in the bass line. This is really not an end-of-life piece. We have consciously based the orchestral forces for the concerto on the string strengths passed down to us from the Prague Opera Orchestra. It seemed plausible to us that Stadler’s orchestra at the premiere could have been formed of 3 first violins, 3 second violins, 2 violas and a bass group. At that time, continuo playing was still common practice and so we added a pianoforte to the cello and bass. I would like to thank Masato Suzuki for his wonderful ideas and inspiration, which made the recording sessions a real pleasure. On a whim we decided to round off this CD with the two songs K. 523 and K. 524. I am also grateful to my colleagues in the SWR Symphony Orchestra. With them I was privileged to go through the “englightened” school of Sir Roger Norrington, and the foundations of this recording were laid in the many years of his conducting at the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart.

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Program

Variations of «See the conqu’ring hero comes» from Händels Oratorium «Judas Maccabäus» WoO 45 arr. for ensemble by A.N. Tarkmann | 13´

“Adelaide” op. 46 | 8´
for tenor, violin, viola, violoncello, bass, bassetthorn, bassoon and horn by M.UCKI

DANCES arr. M.UCKI | 6´
Contredanse WoO 14 1 c major and 3 d major
Menuet WoO 9 1 e-flat major
Ländler WoO 17 n. 6
Contredanse WoO 14 7 e-flat major and 6 c-major

“An die ferne Geliebte” op. 98 | 14´
arr. for singer and octet by A.N. Tarkmann (commissioned by LCP)

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Septet e-flat major op. 20 | 43´
for violin, viola, cello, double bass, clarinet, bassoon and horn

booklet from our last concerts (german)

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Our first program

Prokofief

Mozart

Beethoven

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756 – 1791) | 23´
Quartet for oboe and strings in F major KV 370

Sergej Prokofjew (1891 – 1953) | 23´
Quintet g-minor op. 39 (1924) for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and double bass

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Septet e-flat major op. 20

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Int.-Hugo-Wolf-Akademie

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Ilker Arcayürek & LCP

Beethoven song circles…

“An die ferne Geliebte”
“Adelaide”

DANCES
VARIATIONS on Händel
SEPTET

Next japanease Tour program

BTHVN mania

Septet

8 symphony

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first half items…

Overture to “Egmont” op. 84 for chamber octet by M.UCKI

Johannes Maria Staud (1974) | 15´
NEW PIECE (World Premiere)

Variations on Händels «Judas Maccabäus» WoO 45 arr. for ensemble A.N. Tarkmann

Contredanses, Menuet and Ländler

Next japanease Tour program

BTHVN mania

Johannes Maria Staud (*1974)

new work

New generation viennease composer Johannes Maria Staud will write a new piece for LCP. The premiere will be on the next Japan tour.

Kei Shirai, violin

Kei Shirai, Violin

Concertmaster

Gen Yokosaka, violoncello

Gen Yokosaka

violoncello

Hanno Dönneweg, bassoon

Hanno Dönneweg

bassoon

Principal bassoon SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart | Teaching at Académie supérieure de musique-Conservatoire Strasbourg | Masterclasses Japan, Taiwan and USA | Current albums bassoonFAGOTT!basson (covielloclassics) and Pleyel bassoon concerto (CPO)

Emily Körner, violin

Emily Körner

violin

Principal of the 2nd violin group of the SWR Symphonyorchestra since 2002 | Teacher at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart | Soloviolin at Max Rabe Palast Orchestra from 1998 – 2000 | Highly regarded chamber musician a.o. with the Hegel Quartet

Ryutaro Hei, contrabass

Ryutaro Hei

contrabass

Member of the SWR Symphony Orchetra Stuttgart | Member of the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra | Teaching in Japan and Germany | performed as chamber musician in Japan and Europe | current album THE SOUND OF DOUBLE BASS with Yu Kosuge, piano.

Wolfgang Wipfler, horn

Wolfgang Wipfler

horn

Principal solo horn with the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart | Member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra | Teacher at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart | Masterclasses in Japan, Korea and USA | current album J.G. Lickl Chambermusic (Toccata Classics).

Philippe Tondre, oboe

Philippe Tondre

oboe

Principal solo oboe with SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart | 2nd prize ARD Music Competition, Geneva Int. Competition and won the intern. competition of the Sony Foundation | Solooboe with the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra | Prof. at the University of Music, Saarbrücken

Janis Lielbardis,
viola

Janis Lielbardis

viola

Member of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart | born in Latvia | played with the Kremerata Baltica | peformed as a chamber musician with Gideon Kremer, Tatjana Gridenko, Sergio Azzolini and Ilze Grudule | passionate latvia folk dance performer.

Dirk Altmann, clarinet

Dirk Altmann

clarinet

Principal solo clarinet with SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart | Masterclasses | Arranger | Current albums “PARIS” with Mako Okamoto, piano and friends and Debussy Rhapsodie with Heinz Holliger, conductor.

Sébastian Jacot

flute

Principal solo flute Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig | Member of the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra | 1st prizie at the ARD Music Competition, Carl Nielsen and Kobe intern. flute competition | performed with Contrechamps Geneva | current album PREMIERE (Orchid) with Carl Nielsen flute concerto.

contact

Japan office

Kumiko Hirose
kumikotopyon [at] gmail.com
+81-(0)90-8878-7684

LCP Office

+49 (711) 5055282
hanno.doenneweg [at] web.de

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Japan
Hirasa Office
mail [at] hirasaoffice06.com

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Our new Mozart album is arrived

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It is our great pleasure to present our new Mozart recording. Kei and Dirk did a lot of research in order to show you why was Mozart the most fashionable artist in his times. Neither later composers nor the pop icons of today have achieved such popularity among all levels of society.

Ludwig Chamber Players

Ludwig Chamber Players

News

/2020

Current album

Information about this production

Save the date

/2020

Project

#BTHVN2020

Ilker Arcayürek

Members

LCP live in concert

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Mozart Works for clarinet

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Chambermusic by S. Prokofiev

next release

Chambermusic by S. Prokofiev

Our latest CD

Our debut album...

#BTHVN2020 with Ilker Arcayürek

Program

booklet from our last concerts (german)

enjoy discovering our programs…

Kei Shirai, Violin

Gen Yokosaka

Hanno Dönneweg

Emily Körner

Ryutaro Hei

Wolfgang Wipfler

Philippe Tondre

Janis Lielbardis

Dirk Altmann

Sébastian Jacot

contact

Japan office

LCP Office

Agencies

Our new Mozart album is arrived

It is our great pleasure to present our new Mozart recording. Kei and Dirk did a lot of research in order to show you why was Mozart the most fashionable artist in his times. Neither later composers nor the pop icons of today have achieved such popularity among all levels of society.