Keywords: Symphony Concert, Vocal Music
| Andris Nelsons | Conductor |
| Rachel Willis-Sørensen | Soprano |
| »Prélude à 'L'Après-midi d'un Faune'« | Claude Debussy |
| »Wesendonck-Lieder« for Soprano and Orchestra | Richard Wagner |
| »Symphonie fantastique«, Opus 14 | Hector Berlioz |
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Helena Munktell’s romantic Suite for large orchestra is a piece that the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has never before performed in its entirety. The music was composed in 1895, and like the now often performed Bränningar, this suite was premiered in Monte Carlo in the late 19th century.Next, we hear the young Swedish soprano Jessica Elevant tackle Wagner's Wesendonck Songs – music filled with burning longing and celestial beauty. Jessica Elevant has recently gained attention for her participation in Daniel Nelson's opera Pride and Prejudice at the Norrlandsoperan. This marks her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.Another debutant is Sergej Bolkhovets – as a conductor, that is. He has previously been a violin soloist with the orchestra. He leads the orchestra in Shostakovich's first symphony. Already in this symphony, Shostakovich demonstrates his phenomenal ability to handle the orchestra. It's personal music with humorous twists and great finesse. A remarkable symphonic debut by a 19-year-old composer.
Richard Wagner’s opera »Die Walküre« is a passionate exploration of big themes such as love and betrayal, loyalty and rebellion. The god Wotan wanted to rule through contracts rather than violence but, as a result of broken promises, becomes increasingly entangled in problems until blood begins to flow. Finding no solutions, Wotan finally cries: »One thing alone do I want: the end!« But his daughter Brünnhilde thwarts his plans… At the Hamburg International Music Festival, there is an opportunity to experience the opera in historical original sound for the first time under conductor Kent Nagano. At the festival, Kent Nagano is not conducting »his« orchestra, the Hamburg State Opera, but rather the Dresdner Festspielorchester, Concerto Köln and a top-class cast of soloists, who explore the playing and singing techniques of the 19th century. »More intimate tone colours, a more multi-layered and transparent sound, freed from the ballast of the centuries,« say the performers about the project, which seems to have been tailor-made for the transparent acoustics of the Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall. One of Wagner’s most famous pieces, the »Ride of the Valkyries« – famously used by director Francis Ford Coppola as background music to a helicopter attack in the anti-war film »Apocalypse Now« – thus sounds altogether different.
Jetzt zieht er in die Welt: Der freie Held Siegfried soll wieder richten, was Wotan, der Göttervater, zu Beginn der Geschichte vermasselt hat. Endlich ist Teil drei von Wagners »Ring des Nibelungen« im Originalklang-Projekt von Kent Nagano zu erleben.Im Rahmen dieses Projekts (das ursprünglich unter der Überschrift »Wagner-Lesarten« bekannt wurde und in dem überhaupt die Idee zu einem Originalklang-Ring entstand und realisiert werden konnte und zwar mit großzügiger Unterstützung des Landes NRW und der Kunststiftung nrw) erkundet der entdeckungsfreudige Maestro gemeinsam mit Concerto Köln, dem Dresdner Festspielorchester und einer exquisiten Sängerschar fortgesetzt die historisch informierten Dimensionen der Tetralogie. Musikalisch beredt erzählen sie nun davon, wie Siegfried im Wald aufwächst, das Schwert Nothung neu schmiedet, den Drachen Fafner tötet, von diesem arglos den »Ring des Nibelungen« gewinnt, Wotans Speer zerschlägt und liebend die Walküre Brünnhilde erweckt.The Wagner CyclesEin Projekt der Dresdner Musikfestspiele Gefördert vom Kuratorium KölnMusik e.V.
Poetry unlocks the imagination, as Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan plunge into the wild, wondrous sonic universe of Claude Debussy and Alban Berg.
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