Organization

Conductor

Sylvain Cambreling

Pianist

David Kadouch

Singer

Nathalie Forget

Ondes Martenot

Spoken

Hans-Jürgen Schatz

Speaker

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Europa Chor Akademie Görlitz

Symphoniker Hamburg

5th symphony concert Romantic twilight

Hamburg

Germany

Laeiszhalle

5th symphony concert Romantic twilight: Concert Various

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In 1940 the composer and organist Olivier Messiaen was taken prisoner by Germany for a few months. In freedom, but still in the terrible years of 1943 and 1944, Messiaen wrote a composition for the massive and unusual line-up of piano, ondes martenot, 36-part female choir, percussion and strings. The electronic exotic instrument Ondes Martenot found its way into an almost full-length work before the monumental Turangalîla symphony (1946-48). The composer himself wrote the text for his “Three Little Liturgical Pieces on the Presence of God” and thus once more expressed his deep, deep religiousness.

The play "Thamos, King in Egypt" was written by the playwright and civil servant Tobias Philipp von Gebler in 1773. The play tells a typical, educational story of the Egyptian King Menes and his son Thamos. A piece about the amalgamation of power and love - and the corresponding pitfalls of this dangerous combination. In the year the drama text was published, Mozart contributed incidental music, which was probably premiered in Vienna in the spring of 1774. Mozart seemed to have taken a liking to his own music, because the composer took individual parts of his work again five years later, revised them and used them for the incidental music for the tragedy "Lanassa" by Karl Martin Plümicke.

You, arch, are the high gate,
I am the little wanderer on the steps.
You burst out with all your noble shine
and called me mighty.

You are the gate to the ultimate purity.
Nothing can be disguised and cunning in front of you.
Like bad clothes I take off the words
and enter in silence.

KARL BRÖGER (1886–1944)

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5th symphony concert Romantic twilight by Various, From (2022/2022), Conductor Sylvain Cambreling, Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany

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