The 3rd symphony concert is also dedicated to a selected topic - this time it takes you to the water world. At the beginning, Antonín Dvořák's symphonic poem "The Aquarius", composed in 1896, is heard. Based on an old legend, the nature spirit here becomes a cruel child murderer and symbolizes the dark side of the struggle between man and nature. The world-renowned English composer Thomas Adès (b. 1971), who is well known in Meiningen, finds musical locations in a completely different way in “Lieux retrouvés”. Created in 2009, the work with its four movements "Water", "Mountains", "Fields" and "Cities" places extreme technical demands on the solo part. Never simply onomatopoeic, but peppered with countless effects, the cellist Karolina Ölmann faces the difficult and attractive challenges.
The second part takes us to France: Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys" describes the French version of Wagner's "Lohengrin". The overture adapts to the “Water Worlds” in a dreamy, romantic way. The concert concludes with Debussy's masterpiece "La mer" - under the proven baton of Philippe Bach.
