Name: NSO And Jessica Cottis: Karen Power, Dvořák, Beethoven
Start: 2023-01-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-01-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: National Concert Hall (NCH)

Organization

Conductor

Jessica Cottis

Singer

Leticia Moreno

Violin

Instrumentalist

Orchestra

National Symphony Orchestra

National Concert Hall

NSO And Jessica Cottis: Karen Power, Dvořák, Beethoven

Dublin

Ireland

National Concert Hall (NCH)

Main Auditorium

NSO And Jessica Cottis: Karen Power, Dvořák, Beethoven: Nature Calls (+2 More)

Public

Nature Calls

Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53

Symphony No. 7

Approved

Bass

Pianist

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 gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Stage director

Librettist

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

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Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

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Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

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Illustrator

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Orchestra Operations

Extra

Mezzo-soprano

Soprano

Tenor

Baritone

Countertenor

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Three vital and vivid responses to the pleasures of birdsong, the natural world and to life itself – including the world premiere of Karen Power’s brilliant new piece – illuminate music’s power to thrillingly capture mood and moment, place and people.

Making welcome returns to the National Symphony Orchestra are the ‘engaged energy and musical intelligence’ (Sydney Morning Herald) of Jessica Cottis and the ‘formidable technique [and] compelling execution’ (The Scotsman) of Leticia Moreno.

Commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra and receiving its world premiere performance, Karen Power’s …nature calls… for Symphony Orchestra + Blackbird is an exquisite blending of orchestral colour and the recorded song of a blackbird that, the composer says, ‘momentarily inhabits the orchestra and imprints on each instrument before returning beyond the walls of the concert hall and back into life’.

Composed in collaboration with the great Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim, Dvořák’s sole Violin Concerto is a tuneful, dancing piece brimming with innovation and vast emotional range from its serious and dramatic first movement to its nostalgic and gloriously lyrical Adagio and the diamond-like sparkle of its finale which employs traditional Czech folk dances in brilliantly skittish writing for the violin.

Famously hailed by Wagner as ‘the apotheosis of dance’, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony opens with dark foreboding but moves towards an exhilarating climax described by Tchaikovsky as ‘a whole series of images, full of unrestrained joy, full of bliss and pleasure of life’. Experiences of the Napoleonic wars, Beethoven’s acute deafness, and tortured affairs of the heart are given voice in tumultuously lyrical music whose innovations re-wrote the rule book for generations of composers who followed. Its grave second movement was heard to memorable effect in the film The King’s Speech.

English

NSO And Jessica Cottis: Karen Power, Dvořák, Beethoven by Power, K., Dvořák, Beethoven, From (2023/2023), Conductor Jessica Cottis, National Concert Hall (NCH), Dublin, Ireland

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