Name: Ensemble modern
Start: 2023-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Alte Oper

Organization

Conductor

George Benjamin

Singer

Anna Prohaska

Soprano

Orchestra

Ensemble Modern

Alte Oper Frankfurt

Ensemble modern

Frankfurt am Main

Germany

Alte Oper

Mozart Saal

Ensemble modern: Octandre for 7 Winds and Double Bass Edgard Varèse (+4 More)

Public

Octandre for 7 Winds and Double Bass

Mirage, Mémoire, Mystère for violin and string trio

3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé

Canon and Fugue from: The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 (arr. George Benjamin)

The Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 9

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Countertenor

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Bass

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Tenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Für seine Verhältnisse fast schon außergewöhnlich „alte“ Musik setzt das Ensemble Musik aufs Programm, wenn es seine Saison in der Alten Oper eröffnet. Bachs kontrapunktische Kunst erscheint hier aber im Spiegel der Moderne: George Benjamin – der an diesem Abend auch die Leitung innehat – nahm sich 2007 einen Kanon und eine Fuge aus der „Kunst der Fuge“ vor und überführte die Strukturen in ein zeitgemäßes polyphones Klanggeflecht. Bereits 110 Jahre liegt das Skandalkonzert zurück, bei dem Schönbergs Kammersinfonie Nr. 1 aufgeführt wurde – ein richtungsweisendes Werk für die musikalische Moderne. Und in Ravels „3 Poèmes de Stephane Mallarmé“ aus dem gleichen Jahr, gesungen hier von der wandlungsfähigen Anna Prohaska, wird der Weg von der Tonalität zur Atonalität gleichsam in drei Stationen nachgezeichnet

Deutsch

By its standards, the ensemble puts “old” music on its program that is almost exceptionally “early” when it opens its season in the Alte Oper. But Bach's contrapuntal art appears here in the mirror of modernity: George Benjamin – who is also conducting this evening – took on a canon and a fugue from the “Art of Fugue” in 2007 and transferred the structures into a contemporary polyphonic sound network. The scandalous concert at which Schönberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1 was performed - a trend-setting work for modern music - dates back 110 years. And in Ravel's "3 Poèmes de Stephane Mallarmé" from the same year, sung here by the versatile Anna Prohaska, the path from tonality to atonality is traced in three stages, so to speak.

English

Ensemble modern by Varèse, Haddad, Saed, Ravel, Bach, J. S., Schoenberg, Arnold, From (2023/2023), Conductor George Benjamin, Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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