Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on Europe Tour
Ivan Meylemans rejoins the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as assistant-conductor for chief conductor Mariss Jansons during their forthcoming Europe tour. Featured works are major repertoire works by Wagner, Shostakovich (Symphony No 10) and Dvorak (Requiem – RCO première).
Shostakovich’ 10th Symphony was written just after Stalin’s death in March 1953. Whether this symphony contains a portrait of Stalin or not, it’s clear that this music is anticipating a new and enlightenend political era. Therefore it has been rightly called ‘an optimistic tragedy’, at once summing up all that Shostakovich had to say in the form of a symphony and releasing everything that the years of Stalin's oppression had buried.
Together with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Wiener Singverein (° 1858) perform Dvorak’s Requiem as part of their 150th jubilee season. At first sight a weird choice to celebrate an anniversary with a work which represents a quest on human existential matters on life and death. However this is a standard repertoire choral work, RCO never performed it before … it’ll be a first class premiere! |
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Concert dates
Thursday 29 January at 20:15 – Amsterdam (NL)
Friday 30 January at 20:00 – Brussels (B)
Sunday 1 February at 14:15 – Amsterdam (NL)
Wednesday 4 February at 20:15 – Amsterdam (NL)
Sunday 8 February at 20:00 – Frankfurt (D)
Monday 9 February at 19:30 – Basel (CH)
Tuesday 10 February at 19:30 – Vienna (A) *
Wednesday 11 February at 19:30 – Vienna (A)
Thursday 12 February at 19:30 – Vienna (A) *
Programme 1
R. Wagner: Overture Tannhäuser
R. Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine journey (Rheinfahrt)
R. Wagner: Trauermusik from Götterdämmerung
D. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10, op. 93, E minor
Programme 2 *
A. Dvorak: Requiem, op. 89 (RCO première)
Krassimira Stoyanove (soprano)
Mihoko Fujimura (alto)
Thomas Quasthoff (bariton)
Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor)
Wiener Singverein (chorus)
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