The “Orquesta Académica de Madrid” has developed a section on Chamber Music through its Ensemble. This has been a project established from the origins of the orchestra due to several reasons. First of all, chamber music permits to obtain greater flexibility and better orchestral sound. Secondly, it benefits professionals devoted to this musical form as they work in smaller groups. And last, but not least, chamber music is raising great interest on the part of audiences.

The Ensemble of the “Orquesta Académica de Madrid”, formed by the most outstanding instrumentalists of the orchestra, has recently been presented in a tour around some Spanish cities, offering chamber programmes of enormous interest for all kinds of public. Moreover, the reduced costs have allowed the orchestra to attempt a variety of low-budget productions, extending the possibilities of collaboration in charitable kinds of concerts, festivals or tours.

The reduced size of the Ensemble also has a clear advantage concerning space of performance. The chamber programmes are thought –and often composed- to be executed in cloisters, small rooms or even outdoors, not needed generally the conditions of a concert hall.

Some of the works in the repertoire of the Ensemble of the “Orquesta Académica de Madrid” are the following:

W. A. Mozart
            Serenade in B flat Major KV 361 “Gran Partita”
            Serenade in C minor KV 388/384ª
            Serenade in E flat Major KV 375
            Eine kleine Nachtmusik KV 525
            Serenata Notturna KV 239
            Ein musikalischer Spass KV 522

A. Salieri
            Armonia per un Tempio della Notte
      Serenade in B flat Major

L. v. Beethoven
            Septet in E flat Major op. 20
            Octet in E flat Major op. 103

J. N. Hummel
            Octet-Partita in E flat Major

F. Mendelssohn
            Octet in E flat Major op. 20

A. Dvorák
            Serenade for Strings in E Major op. 22
            Serenade for Winds, Cello and Contrabass in D minor op. 44

P. I. Tschaikovsky
            Serenade for Strings in C Major op. 48

 

R. Strauss
            Suite for 13 Wind Instruments op. 4

G. Mahler
            Das Lied von der Erde (arr. A. Schönberg)

F. Poulenc
            Le Bal masqué

L. Janácek
            Mladí

I. Stravinsky
            Octet
            Ragtime
            Deux poemes de Balmont
            Trois poemes de la lyrique japonaise
            Priboutki
            Les berceuses du Chat

A. Schönberg
            Pierrot lunaire op. 21