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Works by Maria Xaveria Perucona, Johann Adolf Hasse, Gustav Holst, and Arvo Pärt, as well as piano music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Lera Auerbach, and Arvo Pärt.
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Works by Maria Xaveria Perucona, Johann Adolf Hasse, Gustav Holst, and Arvo Pärt, as well as piano music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Lera Auerbach, and Arvo Pärt.
With Gustav Holst’s atmospheric 1916 orchestral suite The Planets, Daniel Harding embarks on a cosmic musical journey through our solar system. Each of the seven planets has its own musical character, from rugged Mars to mystical Neptune. Holst was greatly inspired by Arnold Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces, which oscillate intriguingly between late Romanticism and Modernism. Completing the programme, Brett Dean’s Komarov’s Fall was commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2006 as a musical “asteroid” to Holst’s Planets.
Welcome to the second instalment of our new series Ausklang! Each time, you can experience a short programme with a single orchestral work – but one that has it all. This time it’s Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets: a musical journey through our solar system, conducted by Daniel Harding. Each of the seven planets has its own musical character, from rugged Mars to mystical Neptune. Unusual orchestral effects are employed, inspiring many subsequent film music composers. After the concert, we invite you to enjoy a free drink in the foyer.
With Gustav Holst’s atmospheric 1916 orchestral suite The Planets, Daniel Harding embarks on a cosmic musical journey through our solar system. Each of the seven planets has its own musical character, from rugged Mars to mystical Neptune. Holst was greatly inspired by Arnold Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces, which oscillate intriguingly between late Romanticism and Modernism. Completing the programme, Brett Dean’s Komarov’s Fall was commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2006 as a musical “asteroid” to Holst’s Planets.
The London Schools Symphony Orchestra takes you on an epic tour of the orchestra before reaching for the stars with Holst's cosmic masterpiece.
Together with the German-British Choral Academy conducted by Wayne Marshall, Germany’s top young orchestral players present a programme dedicated to Britten, Holst and Gershwin – »very British«, in other words. The evening begins with Britten’s classic »The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra«, a piece that continues to playfully familiarise young audiences with the full range of orchestral instruments – and which also skilfully showcases the talent of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany this evening. Gershwin’s »Rhapsody in Blue« forms the centrepiece, and not altogether surprisingly: Gershwin is a speciality of Wayne Marshall’s. A classic that skilfully combines jazz elements with blues and concertante symphonic music and perhaps the composer’s most famous piece, which celebrated its world premiere in New York’s Aeolian Hall some 100 years ago.The evening ends with Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite »The Planets«, which is considered with good reason the forerunner of many a film score. The German-British Choir Academy participates as a cosmically enchanting distant choir.
Ring in the new year with a stirring celebration of classical favourites, including a complimentary drink.
FROHE BOTSCHAFT? Als Thomas Adès 1999 mit America – A Prophecy den Auftrag Kurt Masurs für New York Philharmonic erfüllte, war er selbst überrascht, wie düster ihm die Musik geriet. Keine heroische Vision einer stolzen Nation floss ihm aus der Feder, sondern ein verzweifelter Aufschrei im Angesicht der Apokalypse. Masur, der einen optimistischen Beitrag zur Reihe musikalischer »Messages for the Millenium« erhofft hatte, stockte der Atem. Gewaltiger Erfolg bei Publikum und Presse zeigte: Der 27 Jahre junge Komponist und sein kühner Premierendirigent trafen einen Nerv der Zeit. Mit den Terroranschlägen des 11. September 2001 schien die Prophecy von Adès’ Orchesterwerk schließlich auf verstörende Weise Realität zu werden. Seitdem ringt Adès mit einem dritten, ins Positive gewandten Teil. Kann das dieser Tage gelingen? Die krisengeschüttelte Welt hätte es nötiger denn je. STERNSTUNDE Weniger astronomische als astrologische Phänomene hatte der Mädchenschullehrer, Wochenendkomponist und Hobbysterndeuter Holst im Sinn, als er den Teilen seiner großartigen Orchestersuite Planetennamen verlieh. Sieben Sätze umfasst der Zyklus: Im Zentrum strahlt die fulminante Klangpracht Jupiters, des größten Planeten unseres Sonnensystems. Um ihn kreisen der infernalisch aufmarschierende Mars – komponiert kurz vor Ausbruch des 1. Weltkriegs – und die betörende Venus. Dem eilig dahinhuschenden Merkur folgen Saturn, der mit Harfe, Heckelphon, Altflöte und Glocken überrascht, der bezaubernde Uranus und der sonnen- und erdferne Neptun. In dessen mystische Musik mischen sich menschliche Stimmen und beschwören wortlos den Zustand kosmischer Harmonie.
FROHE BOTSCHAFT? Als Thomas Adès 1999 mit America – A Prophecy den Auftrag Kurt Masurs für New York Philharmonic erfüllte, war er selbst überrascht, wie düster ihm die Musik geriet. Keine heroische Vision einer stolzen Nation floss ihm aus der Feder, sondern ein verzweifelter Aufschrei im Angesicht der Apokalypse. Masur, der einen optimistischen Beitrag zur Reihe musikalischer »Messages for the Millenium« erhofft hatte, stockte der Atem. Gewaltiger Erfolg bei Publikum und Presse zeigte: Der 27 Jahre junge Komponist und sein kühner Premierendirigent trafen einen Nerv der Zeit. Mit den Terroranschlägen des 11. September 2001 schien die Prophecy von Adès’ Orchesterwerk schließlich auf verstörende Weise Realität zu werden. Seitdem ringt Adès mit einem dritten, ins Positive gewandten Teil. Kann das dieser Tage gelingen? Die krisengeschüttelte Welt hätte es nötiger denn je. STERNSTUNDE Weniger astronomische als astrologische Phänomene hatte der Mädchenschullehrer, Wochenendkomponist und Hobbysterndeuter Holst im Sinn, als er den Teilen seiner großartigen Orchestersuite Planetennamen verlieh. Sieben Sätze umfasst der Zyklus: Im Zentrum strahlt die fulminante Klangpracht Jupiters, des größten Planeten unseres Sonnensystems. Um ihn kreisen der infernalisch aufmarschierende Mars – komponiert kurz vor Ausbruch des 1. Weltkriegs – und die betörende Venus. Dem eilig dahinhuschenden Merkur folgen Saturn, der mit Harfe, Heckelphon, Altflöte und Glocken überrascht, der bezaubernde Uranus und der sonnen- und erdferne Neptun. In dessen mystische Musik mischen sich menschliche Stimmen und beschwören wortlos den Zustand kosmischer Harmonie.
Welcome to the Oslo Philharmonic’s chamber concert for parents with small children - our classical concert offer for families with the youngest children. Here, you can have a new experience together with your baby. We have adapted the music for sensitive ears and provided a smaller orchestra so that it is suitable for both adults and children.We perform a selection of classical pieces, both well-known and unknown, in a format suitable for new parents and babbling (or sleeping) little concert-goers. The stroller must be parked in the dressing room, but you are welcome to bring blankets, bags, pillows, pacifiers, bottles, and so on into the hall. For this to be the best possible experience for everyone, we have some tips here:Feel free to leave the room if the child feels unwell, cries, or is not having a good dayYou can go in and out of the hall as often as you like.We encourage you to leave the toys with sound in the pram.You will find changing areas outside in the foyer.Welcome to a pleasant music experience together with your baby!
The »Somerset Rhapsody« by Gustav Holst is an atmospheric and picturesque composition in which Holst was inspired by the idyllic English county of Somerset as well as many English folk songs. Delicate and tranquil melodies at the beginning evoke a sense of rural beauty, from which the full splendour of Somerset emerges: Large hills, meandering rivers and peaceful villages are just a few images that the composer musically conveys to the listener with his melodies over the course of his work. Belá Bartók’s Viola Concerto is considered one of the most important works for viola and orchestra, and not only in the 20th century. Several versions of this concerto can be found today, which is due to the fact that the composer was unable to complete this work during his lifetime. His pupil Tibor Serly completed the fragments handed down by Bartók into a concerto. The Bartók/Serly version is a three-movement work. It begins with a serious Moderato, followed by a fairly short, slow second movement and a finale in third place, which was composed in an Allegro vivace. Bartók’s compositional style is not based on song-like, motivic melodies as was common in the Romantic period. Instead, the composer creates his themes with a semitone whole-tone scale, which he uses to shape the concerto for viola and orchestra. The demanding solo part is played by 19-year-old Johannes Loschelder from the ranks of the Jugend Sinfonieorchester Ahrensburg. The Hamburg composer Johannes Brahms took his time with the publication of his First Symphony. He took around 20 years to complete it, putting himself too far in the shadow of the great symphony composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The four-movement work contains a densely woven introduction that introduces the dark and tense themes of the Symphony in C minor. Brahms’ symphonic style is characterised by singing melodies and instrumental solos, for example in the lyrical second movement. This contrasts with the rhythmic and dance-like character of the third movement, for which an exuberant cantilena in the clarinet at the beginning forms the basis. The final movement rounds off his 1st Symphony in C minor brilliantly: here too, Brahms opens the movement with a sombre and tense introduction, then plays an »alphorn melody« in joyful C major before moving on to the main movement, whose main theme is familiar to many thanks to the Hamburg Journal, for example. The themes are developed by Brahms and lead to a coda that rounds off this work impressively.
The German-French »arabesques« cultural festival was started in Hamburg in 2011. With more than 50 events each year, it is now the biggest festival of its kind in northern Germany. The arabesques ensemble, which was initially active only during the festival, has since developed a dynamism of its own, and gives guest performances in Germany and abroad all year round. Musicians from the three major Hamburg orchestras as well as orchestral soloists from all over Germany play in varying line-ups. The ensemble focuses primarily on unusual projects from the Baroque period to the modern era, often performing forgotten works and pieces by unfamiliar composers.