Mønsterbryderne by Wagner, Richard, Prokofiev, Bartók, De (2023/2023), Director Andris Poga, Musikhuset Aarhus, Århus, Dinamarca

Wagner, Prokofiev & Bartók The pattern breakers Experience a colorful revelation of the meeting between the romantic and the modern, the old and the new – and three captivating ways of thinking about music and the orchestra. Community. It is the cornerstone of this season. And with the community also comes all its anguish - including the showdown with heritage and traditions. The three works for the season's opening concert are situated in the middle of the battle between tradition and renewal: it is music created right where the world is changing. The music is written by three innovators who do away with the outside world's usual way of thinking about classical music. Wagner embraces the greatest, and in Mestersangerne he tells the story of the solitary versus the community. Can music be both angular and lyrical at the same time? Prokofiev's music can. His music is somewhere between the old and the new – or rather, he takes the best of both worlds. His first violin concerto is both biting, sardonic and ethereally stubborn. In Bartók's colorful and vital Concerto for Orchestra, the entire orchestra appears as soloists. It is the perfect example of the symphony orchestra as a magical organism, where the whole is infinitely more than the individual parts. A bit like society in general.