Keywords: Tour Concert, Vocal Music
| Iván Fischer | Conductor |
| Camilla Nylund | Soprano |
| Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks |
| “Don Juan”, op. 20 | Richard Strauss |
| “Four Last Songs”, TrV 296 | Richard Strauss |
| “Also sprach Zarathustra”, Op. 30, TrV 176 | Richard Strauss |
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Pieces ofRichard Strauss, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alexander Zemlinsky, Gustav Mahler u. a.
The concert will be broadcast on 14 May 2024 at 8.03 pm on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
The concert opens with Serenade in E-flat major for 13 wind instruments (op. 7), composed by Richard Strauss at the age of 17. This journeyman piece already sparkles with the typical Straussian inflection. His Four Lieder of 1894 (op. 27), sung by Camilla Nylund, are gems of the late-romantic repertoire. Five years later Arnold Schoenberg wrote his string sextet Transfigured Night after a poem by Richard Dehmel. Poised between late romanticism and the burgeoning modern era, this gripping work was arranged for string orchestra in 1917, producing an even more sophisticated interplay of solo and ensemble passages.
In his Reflektor festival, André Heller brings very different artists together on the Elbphilharmonie stage. One of the internationally most sought-after opera singers, Camilla Nylund, meets Angélique Kidjo from Benin, the new »Mama Africa«, who received euphoric acclaim in March 2023 at her own Reflektor festival in the Elbphilharmonie. André Heller’s impressive portfolio of activities includes the art of opera directing, and the Finnish star-soprano Camilla Nylund is one of his favourite singers. In winter 2019/20, he directed Richard Strauss’s »Rosenkavalier« at the Staatsoper Berlin, with Nylund as the Marschallin. And the two soon cooked up another project: Nylund singing orchestral arrangements of classics from the Great American Songbook. The singer – who perfected her art performing Strauss and Wagner – succeeds in both expressing and reining in the power and silkiness of her dramatic soprano voice in a way that is faithful to the spirit of jazz. »Her unique gift, her flexibility, her curiosity, her virtuosic mastery of power, and her emotional warmth« are all qualities Heller admires in Nylund. All this can also be said of Angélique Kidjo, the best-known voice of contemporary African music. After her acclaimed Reflektor festival in spring 2023, Kidjo needs no introduction. For her upcoming performance in the Elbphilharmonie, she has commissioned new arrangements of soulful African songs for voice with orchestral accompaniment. The result is a programme of songs from very different cultures, performed by two great representatives of their art – it will be fascinating to see how it all comes together into one whole.
A Beethoven festival with Iván Fischer! This Hungarian conductor has acquired international fame for his readings of the classical-romantic repertoire and makes guest appearances with all the great orchestras. His BRSO programme features the Eighth Symphony, full of merriment and understated humour, and the Fifth, where Fate knocks at the door and the almost martial finale seems to find the composer “grabbing destiny by the throat”. Between these two mutually contradictory masterpieces is the revenge aria Ah! Perfido!, to words by Pietro Metastasio. The soprano is Christiane Karg.
A Beethoven festival with Iván Fischer! This Hungarian conductor has acquired international fame for his readings of the classical-romantic repertoire and makes guest appearances with all the great orchestras. His BRSO programme features the Eighth Symphony, full of merriment and understated humour, and the Fifth, where Fate knocks at the door and the almost martial finale seems to find the composer “grabbing destiny by the throat”. Between these two mutually contradictory masterpieces is the revenge aria Ah! Perfido!, to words by Pietro Metastasio. The soprano is Christiane Karg.
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