Name: Philippe Jordan
Start: 2021-09-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: München Residenz

Admin

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Conductor

Philippe Jordan

Instrumentalist

François-Frédéric Guy

Piano

Others

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Orchestra

German

Munich

Germany

München Residenz

Herkulessaal

Public

Faust Overture

Totentanz, S.126

Faust Symphony, S. 108

Samabedona Majumder

Approved

In his début at the helm of the BRSO Philippe Jordan, the music director of the Vienna State Opera since 2020, devotes himself to life’s dark side and a theme from world literature that has held composers spellbound time and time again: Faust. Franz Liszt, in the three movements of his Faust Symphony, delineates character studies of the three main figures – Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles. His symphony culminate in a mystical finale with chorus and solo tenor, invoking the power of forgiveness through what Goethe called “the eternal feminine”. Wagner’s Faust Overture, on the other hand, is limited to the title figure, its sustained tempo describing his loneliness in his solitary study. Rounding off the programme is Liszt’s Danse macabre (Totentanz), a paraphrase on the Dies irae motif that is by turns apocalyptic, macabre and grotesque. Here, too, we hear the Faustian contest between Heaven and Hell.

English

Philippe Jordan by Wagner, Richard, Liszt, From (2021/2021), Conductor Philippe Jordan, München Residenz, Munich, Germany

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues