Ensemble Resonanz / Véronique Gens / Riccardo Minasi

Date & Time

Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 20:00

Venue

With his Fourth Symphony, Brahms left posterity an orchestral monolith, austere and monumental, the sum of his ability as a composer and an expression of radical tradition. In this concert, Brahms’s legacy is juxtaposed with dramatic atmosphere from Locatelli and with Berlioz’s unique piece about the death of Cleopatra, with soprano and Berlioz specialist Véronique Gens in the title role. In this programme the Hamburg-based Ensemble Resonanz combines three composers who broke rules and set standards: Pietro Antonio Locatelli, sometimes... Read full text

Keywords: Chamber Music, Symphony Concert, Vocal Music

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Musicians

Ensemble Resonanz
Véronique Gens	Soprano
Riccardo Minasi	Conductor

Program

Sinfonia composta per l’esequie della sua donna che si celebrarono in Roma in F minor for two violins, viola and basso continuo	Pietro Locatelli
La mort de Cléopâtre / scène lyrique for soprano and orchestra	Hector Berlioz
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98	Johannes Brahms

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