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Christoph Eschenbach

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Hanna-Elisabeth Müller

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Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

Our honorary conductor Christoph Eschenbach

Aix-en-Provence

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Grand Théâtre de Provence

Bamberg

Duitsland

Konzerthalle

Our honorary conductor Christoph Eschenbach: Vier letzte Lieder Strauss,R (+1 More)

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Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, WAB 102 ("Symphony of Pauses")

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»And the soul, unguarded, wants to soar in free flights, to live within the magic circle of the night deeply and a thousandfold.« These dream-lorn lines by Hermann Hesse inspired Richard Strauss to write one of his moving »Four Last Songs«. These depict a life cycle and bear witness to his confrontation with his own death. At 83, the aged composer looked back on his triumphant life »weary of wandering«. When a journalist asked him about his next projects, Strauss answered with a wink: »Well, just die!« But his son persuaded him to compose another »major work«, saying, »Dad, stop brooding, write some beautiful songs instead.« And Strauss succeeded in a beguiling way, for the highly romantic settings hover in an inimitable atmosphere of weightlessness. With us, the voice of Hanna-Elisabeth Müller soars to these soulful songs. Christoph Eschenbach then leads us through a work by Bruckner that was first performed in 1873 and was composed as a direct expression of a deep life crisis due to the so-called »St. Anna affair«: as he was hardly noticed as a composer in Vienna at that time, he gave piano lessons at the St. Anna educational institution – and once confidentially called one of his pupils »my darling«. Even though Bruckner felt wrongly suspected, the newspapers made a scandal out of this event. He was soon rehabilitated, but wrote his second symphony in this humiliated state of mind – which therefore has a restless, pessimistic underlying mood: it fluctuates between heartfelt prayers, desperate outbursts, clueless silences and wild dance scenes.

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Our honorary conductor Christoph Eschenbach by Strauss, Bruckner, Van (2024/2024), Dirigent Christoph Eschenbach, Konzerthalle, Bamberg, Duitsland

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