Program
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Richard Wagner: Wesendonck-lieder
Gustav Mahler: Fra Rückert-lieder
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symfoni nr. 8
Medvirkende
Lise Davidsen - sopran
Antje Weithaas - leder
Begivenhetene står i kø denne høsten!
Med Lise Davidsen i Wagners Wesendonck-lieder og Rückert-lieder av Mahler, blir ikke novemberkvelden i Aulaen noe unntak.
Lise Davidsen er på kort tid blitt Norges nye internasjonale sangstjerne med engasjementer på de aller største konsert- og operascenene i verden.
I Aulaen kan du imidlertid oppleve en helt egen nærhet til solist og orkester som få andre steder kan by på. I vår flerårige Beethovenserie er vi denne kvelden kommet frem til hans symfoni nr. 8, hans korteste. Den er forunderlig optimistisk og humørfylt, noe som står i sterk kontrast til hans personlige problemer på denne tiden.
Det hele ledet av den tyske fiolinisten Antje Weithaas, en av Tysklands mest profilerte fiolinister og spillende ledere.
Admired for her musicality and the subtle tone of her powerful voice, soprano
Lise Davidsen is conquering the operatic world today, singing the greatest Strauss and Wagnerian roles in the most prestigious opera houses across Europe.
Delicate melancholy in various forms characterises this concert with Davidsen together with the orchestra in an intimate setting of the Aula.
The songs in the programme come from the profound love of the composers who find the greatest intensity of expression through restraint.
The concert opens with Sigfried Idyll, which is a symphonic poem Wagner wrote as a birthday present to his new wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried. This work of utmost delicacy and tenderness is followed by the sensuous Wesendonck Lieder, composed to poems by his putative lover, Mathilde Wesendonck. In these poems, Wagner identified himself finding in her the perfect love which had eluded him throughout his lifetime.
Mahler’s deeply personal settings of words by the Romantic poet Friedrich Rückert are the product of two happy summers in his 40s. Written on either side of that composer's courtship of Alma Schindler, each song finds the profound emotional sensitivity in the act of finding love and art.
As part of our Beethoven series, we have now arrived at his Eighth Symphony. Featuring humorous twists and turns, it is a lighthearted and optimistic work in contrast to the personal turmoil he was experiencing at the time of the composition. All under the direction of violinist Antje Weithaas, one of Germany's foremost violinists and directors.