Name: Nielsen & Sibelius
Start: 2023-04-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Ribe Domkirke

Organization

Conductor

Tung-Chieh Chuang

Singer

Jiyoon Lee

Soloist

Orchestra

Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester

Nielsen & Sibelius

Aabenraa

Denmark

Sønderjyllandshallen

Ribe

Ribe Domkirke

Nielsen & Sibelius: Ouverture Til Den Flyvende Hollænder (+2 More)

Public

Concerto for Violin and orchestra, op. 33

Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82

The Flying Dutchman

Approved

For centuries, the legend of the ghost ship 'The Flying Dutchman' has been one of the most popular among sailors, for whom the eerie ship portends death, storm and shipwreck. Richard Wagner himself came up with the idea to explore the myth when in 1839, on the run from creditors, he ended up in distress off the Norwegian coast. The result was an opera about the human search for redemption from life's storms. After this dramatic prelude, the program continues with Carl Nielsen's violin concerto. With only two movements, it is quite unusual. You can almost speak of two fine separate concerts. It may have bothered many that the form is thus different from what tradition prescribes, but with this, on the other hand, there is an opportunity for both the introverted and the more virtuosic interpretation of the masterpiece that the concert is. The concert ends with Sibelius's 5. symphony, where the conductor Tung-Chieh Chuang will lead us through what Sibelius himself described as follows: "Where most living composers are busy mixing cocktails of various kinds and kinds, I offer the audience a glass of pure cold water." Benjamin Britten has said of this symphony: "He must have been drunk when he wrote it."

English

I århundreder har legenden om spøgelsesskibet ’Den flyvende hollænder’ været en af de mest sejlivede blandt søfolk, for hvem det uhyggelige skib varsler død, storm og forlis. Selv kom Richard Wagner på idéen til at udforske myten, da han i 1839, på flugt fra kreditorer, endte i havsnød ud for den norske kyst. Resultatet blev en opera om den menneskelige søgen efter forløsning fra livets stormvejr. Efter denne dramatiske optakt går programmet videre med Carl Nielsens violinkoncert. Den er med sine kun to satser ret usædvanlig. Man kan næsten tale om to fine særskilte koncerter. Det har muligvis generet mange, at formen således er anderledes end traditionen foreskriver, men hermed er der på den anden side mulighed for såvel den indadvendte som den mere virtuose fortolkning af det mesterværk, som koncerten er. Koncerten afsluttes med Sibelius’ 5. symfoni, hvor dirigenten Tung-Chieh Chuang vil føre os gennem dét Sibelius selv beskrev således: ”Hvor de fleste nulevende komponister har travlt med at mixe cocktails af forskellig art og slags tilbyder jeg publikum et glas rent koldt vand.” Benjamin Britten har om denne symfoni udtalt: ”Han må have været beruset da han skrev den.”

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