Name: Mariss Janson & Diana Damrau
Start: 2019-01-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-01-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Herkulessaal

Organization

Conductor

Mariss Jansons

Singer

Soprano

Diana Damrau

Sally Matthews

Mezzo-soprano

Karen Cargill

Tenor

Ilker Arcayürek

Bass

Stanislav Trofimov

Others

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Mariss Janson & Diana Damrau

Munich

Germany

Herkulessaal

Mariss Janson & Diana Damrau: Concert Various

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Mariss Jansons is the principal conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, and his joint projects with the chorus, headed by Howard Arman, are invariably highlights of the concert season. Now, for the first time in his Munich era, Maestro Jansons will conduct a Bruckner Mass, and since he is a great Bruckner conductor his choice fell on Mass No. 3 in F minor. Laid out on a symphonic scale, this monumental creation offers the Bavarian Radio Choir and the quartet of young solo vocalists ingratiating tasks ranging from lyrical cantilena to mighty jubilation. Not by accident, the use of a solo violin and the introverted inflection recall Bruckner’s model, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. In the first half of the concert listeners can again welcome the soprano Diana Damrau, last heard with the Bavarian RSO in their “Klassik am Odeonsplatz” series. This time the Strauss specialist will treat listeners to the other-worldly beauty of the Four Last Songs, a work perfectly in tune with the crepuscule mood of Bruckner’s mysticism. Three settings of poems by Hesse lead to the Eichendorff setting “Im Abendrot” (At Sunset), which ends with the question “Is this perhaps Death?” – a question left unanswered, but lightened by a tranquil postlude from the orchestra.

English

Mariss Janson & Diana Damrau by Various, From (2019/2019), Conductor Mariss Jansons, Herkulessaal, Munich, Germany

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