Name: Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Start: 2017-06-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-06-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Elbphilharmonie

Admin

Elbphilharmonie & Laeiszhalle Hamburg

Orchestra

NDR Sinfonieorchester

Conductor

Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Singer

Gerald Finley

Soloist

Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Hamburg

Germany

Elbphilharmonie

Grosser Saal

Public

Concert

True Fire

Symphonie fantastique Op. 14

Simon Samuel

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

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

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

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Tenor

Countertenor

Bass

Baritone

Soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Kaija Saariaho’s artistic credo sounds like an echo from long-gone times of innocence: »I believe in purity,« says the Finnish composer about herself. Her works have titles such as »The Secret Garden«, »The Lock of the Soul«, or »The Grammar of Dreams«. And her opera »L’Amour de loin« tells the story of a love-struck young knight who writes poems to a faraway oriental lover in Tripoli and longs for her unattainable beauty.

Indian lullabies and poems by Seamus Heaney, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mahmoud Darwish were used as a basis for the text of her new song cycle »True Fire«, which is dedicated to baritone Gerald Finley. It contains the same quiet fire that characterized her earlier works.

Hector Berlioz, on the other hand, ignites a very different fire with his music. His »Symphonie fantastique« is a through-composed delirium, inspired by the fatal longing for actress Harriet Smithson and by Thomas de Quincey’s autobiographical »Confessions of an English Opium-Eater« (1821). The symphony culminates in a march to the scaffold and a demonic witches Sabbath.

English

Kaija Saariahos künstlerisches Credo klingt wie ein Echo aus lange vergangenen Zeiten der Unschuld: »Ich glaube an Reinheit«, sagt die finnische Komponistin von sich. Ihre Werke tragen Titel wie »Geheime Gärten«, »Das Schloss der Seele« oder »Von der Grammatik der Träume«. Und ihre Oper »Eine Liebe  aus der Ferne« erzählt die Geschichte eines Ritters, der sich in hoher Minne zu einer orientalischen Schönheit verzehrt.

Auch ihr neuer, Gerald Finley gewidmeter Liederzyklus »True Fire«, dessen Text auf indianischen Wiegenliedern und Gedichten von Seamus Heaney, Ralph Waldo Emerson sowie Mahmoud Darwish basiert, bewahrt diese stille Glut.

Hector Berlioz dagegen war ein Feuerkopf, wie er im Buche steht. Seine »Symphonie fantastique« ist ein auskomponiertes Delirium, zu dem Berlioz durch die fatale Leidenschaft für die Schauspielerin Harriet Smithson und Thomas de Quinceys »Bekenntnisse eines englischen Opiumessers« inspiriert worden war. Am Schluss stehen hier der Gang zum Richtplatz und ein wilder Hexensabbat.

Deutsch

Ndr Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Andrés Orozco-Estrada by Saariaho, Berlioz, From (2017/2017), Conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany

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Programme, About & Synopsis

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