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Guest performance at the Mozartfest Würzburg

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Thu, Jun 6, 2024, 20:00
»Music is love‘s soul, for it is the touching of the divine with the human.« These were the thoughts of Bettina von Arnim – and in our concert conducted by Andrew Manze we indulge in such deep soundscapes as Respighi‘s »Concerto Gregoriano« from 1921: it conjures up a religiously solemn world of the middle ages – inspired by his preoccupation with the honorable church modes and meditative melodies of Gregorian chant, which had seized him »like an addiction« at the... Read full text

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Musicians

Andrew ManzeConductor
Frank Peter ZimmermannViolin

Program

Konzert für Violine und Orchester »Concerto Gregoriano«Ottorino Respighi
Symphonie Nr. 1 c-Moll WAB 101 (Wiener Fassung)Anton Bruckner
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