Name: Colours
Start: 2023-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Michael Fowler Centre

Artist

Admin

Klavier

Jian Liu

Piano

Tenor

Oliver Sewell

Bariton

Hadleigh Adams

Orchestra

Orchestra Wellington

Gregorio Chávez Coutiño

Colours

Wellington

Neuseeland

Michael Fowler Centre

Colours: Burleske, TrV 145 Strauss,R (+1 More)

Public

Private

Konzert

Burleske für Klavier und Orchester, TrV 145; AV 85

5 Stücke für Orchester op.16 IAS 26

Das Lied von der Erde

Genehmigt

Bass

Instrumentalist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da Gambist

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Komposition

Dirigat

Regie

Libretto

Bühnenbild

Kostümbild

Choreographie

Lichtgestaltung

Tänzer

Schauspiel

Chordirektion

Videogestaltung

Dramaturgie

Übersetzung

Tongestaltung

Korrepetition

Maske

Leitender Produzent

Haar

Andere

Stage Manager

Chor

Orchester

Poet

GesangslehrerIn

Lehrer

Photographer

Rundfunk

Illustrator

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Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

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Extra

Mezzosopran

Singer

Countertenor

Sopran

Bass-Bariton

Gesprochen

Kinderstimme

Leise

Alto

Continuo

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)

Burleske

Jian Liu – piano

Strauss’s precocious talent is manifest in this strongly Romantic 1886 work, written when he was twenty. The solo part is fearsomely virtuosic and the entire work sparkles with the confidence of youth. Strauss’ orchestration is inventive and assured in this witty piece that tosses themes between soloist and orchestra with ease.

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)

5 Pieces for Orchestra Op. 16

In 1909, as he composed these pieces that Strauss had requested, Schoenberg told him, “They are short orchestra pieces (between one and three minutes long), not cyclically related… However, I am expecting colossal things of them, sound and mood especially. That is all they are about: absolutely not symphonic – precisely the opposite – no architecture, no structure. Merely a bright, uninterrupted interchange of colours, rhythms and moods.”

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)

Das Lied von der Erde

Oliver Sewell – tenor

Hadleigh Adams – baritone

In 1907, Hans Bethge published a volume of his German translations of Chinese poetry. A year later, Mahler used seven of these poems to create this mighty song cycle or voice-led symphony that encapsulates his enduring concerns: nature and mortality. Its six movements traverse strange and beautiful inner visions. The first, Drinking Song of the Earth’s Misery, is perhaps the strangest, reeling giddily between drama and solace, from brassy alarm calls to delicate woodwind trills or caressing vocal phrases. The second song, Autumn Loneliness, is like a slow movement; it is filled with Mahler’s trademark melancholy yearning. The three shortest movements, Youth, Beauty, and The Drunkard in Spring, are three poetic snapshots revelling in life, and function as a symphony’s scherzo. The final movement, the Farewell, is a slow journey that dissolves magically into ineffable peace:

My heart is still and awaits its hour.

The beloved earth everywhere blossoms and greens in springtime

Anew. Everywhere and forever the distances

brighten blue!

Forever… forever...

English

Colours by Strauss, Schoenberg, Arnold, Mahler, Ab (2023/2023), Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, Neuseeland

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