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This week Concerts from the Library of Congress will feature three wonderful groups visiting from abroad. Unfortunately at the close of 2022 the Coolidge Auditorium suffered a flood that has rendered it unusable until all repairs are made. This means that, for now, NONE of our upcoming winter/spring events will be held in the Coolidge Auditorium. In the meantime, we have been busy finding alternative venues for some events, and postponing others.

We are pleased to say that we were able to work out alternative venues for this week’s events. You need to register (for free) in order to attend; please double-check the venue before you come so that you arrive at the right place! For our concerts on February 7th and 11th, we have had the great fortune of being able to utilize St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, luckily  located very close to the Library at 301 A Street, SE, just behind the Adams Building. For our concert on February 8, we have the extraordinary opportunity to host a performance in the Library’s Great Hall, one of the most beautiful rooms in Washington. We thank you for your continued patience and support as we work through these unexpected challenges, and hope to see you at any or all of our events, wherever they may be.

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Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 8pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
301 A Street, SE; Washington, DC 20003
Klangforum Wien

Download the program for Klangforum Wien here!

Klangforum Wien

Klangforum Wien, one of Europe’s great contemporary music ensembles, opens the Library’s 2023 concert series with a fresh burst of recent and established new music. Beginning with a work by Beat Furrer, one of the founders of Klangforum Wien, the group traces the horizon and then peeks beyond. The concert is anchored by the monumental Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus by Australian composer Liza Lim, a recent commission by Klangforum that shows that the past and its hopes are still with us in the midst of ecological disaster.

There will be no preconcert talk for this event.

Program:
BEAT FURRER, linea dell’orizzonte
MORTON FELDMAN, Spring of Chosroes (McKim Fund Commission)
IANNIS XENAKIS, Anaktoria
LIZA LIM, Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 8pm
Great Hall
Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
Quatuor Van Kuijk

Download the program for Quatuor Van Kuijk here!

Quatuor Van Kuijk

“Style, energy, and a sense of risk. These four young Frenchman made the music smile” (The Guardian). The Paris-based Quatuor Van Kuijk comes to the Library to present an impressive program that includes a U.S. premiere by the French composer Benjamin Attahir. Praised by Gramophone for their “Editor’s Choice” Mendelssohn recording–“…a Mendelssohn recital of rare flair and insight”–the quartet is celebrating its tenth anniversary on a high note. So join us for an evening of vital original music, stylish arrangements, and musical excellence all around.

There will be no preconcert talk for this event.

Program:
BENJAMIN ATTAHIR, Al Dhikrâ (U.S. premiere)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY/EMMANUEL FRANCOIS, Petite Suite
FRANCIS POULENC/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MASSON, Mélodies:  “C;” “Fêtes galantes;” “Hôtel;” “Violon;” “Fancy;” “Fleur;” “Les Chemins de l’amour”
GABRIEL FAURÉ/GILDAS GUILLON, Mélodies: “Après un rêve,” op. 7/1; “Les berceaux,” op. 23/1; “Mandoline,” op. 58;  “Clair de lune,” op. 46/2
FELIX MENDELSSOHN, String Quartet no. 6 in F minor, op. 80

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Saturday, February 11, 2023, 8pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
301 A Street, SE; Washington, DC 20003
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor and harpsichord
Roderick Williams, baritone

Download the program for Bach Collegium Japan here!

Masaaki Suzuki & Roderick Williams OBE, performing with Bach Collegium Japan

Join us for a special performance by Masaaki Suzuki. Suzuki leads an ensemble of 11 stellar musicians from the illustrious Bach Collegium Japan, joined by British baritone Roderick Williams, a distinguished figure on opera and concert stages worldwide.

At the forefront of the world’s early music ensembles, the Collegium is admired for its superb artistry and “unmatched excellence” (Gramophone) in the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. Suzuki is both harpsichordist and conductor in this thoughtfully chosen program of Bach, Telemann and a slightly younger compatriot, the “stile galant” composer Johann Gottlieb Janitsch. Williams is featured in two solo cantatas, including the transcendent “Ich habe genug.”

There will be no preconcert talk for this event.

Program:
J.S. BACH, Orchestral Suite in B minor, BWV 1067
JOHANN GOTTLIEB JANITSCH, Sonata da Camera in G minor, “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden”
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN, Cantata, “Der am Ölberg zagende Jesus,” TWV 1:364; Paris Quartet in D major, TWV 43:D3
J.S. BACH, Cantata, “Ich habe genug,” BWV 82

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