The Four Nations Ensemble with Christine Brandes
The Four Nations Ensemble
Christine Brandes, soprano
1144 29th Avenue North
St. Cloud, Minnesota
1300 W Saint Germain St
St. Cloud, Minnesota
"But the most compelling performance of the evening was a colorful rendering of Beethoven's Sonata in F in which Ms. O’Sullivan and Mr. Appel made the most of the timbral peculiarities of their instruments. The finale had a brashness and bite rarely achieved on modern instruments and contrasts between loud extroverted passages and the pianissimo sections that followed were particularly vivid." – New York Times
"It was worth begging, borrowing or stealing a ticket to hear the vivacious, wholly natural Susanna of the American Christine Brandes, whose every word in both aria and recitative was infused with meaning, musical intelligence and vocal beauty." - Opera
The residency by the Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud organized in partnership with the Four Nations Ensemble, the Royalton Elementary School, Whitney Senior Center, and St. Cloud State University, has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s Residency Partnership Program, funded by CMA’s Residency Endowment Fund.
This presentation is supported by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Minnesota State Arts Board, General Mills Foundation, and Land O’Lakes Foundation.
This project is also supported by a grant from the United Arts Fund, a program of COMPAS, including contributions from hundreds of employees at companies throughout Minnesota.
