RADIO RECORDING AND FACEBOOK LIVE: Ingo Metzmacher and Maximilian Schmitt

Bamberg, Konzerthalle, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal
17:00 Uhr

This concert will be recorded live by BR-KLASSIK and broadcast on the radio on the following date: 26.05.21, 20:05. This concert we play with a modified programme.

You can watch the recording in the live stream on our Facebook page on 16.4.2021 from 5pm.

Music like spring fever! Stravinsky composed another ode to spring besides his famous »Sacre du Printemps«: his 1933 dance melodrama »Perséphone«. It is about the myth of Persephone, Zeus’ daughter, who is worshipped both as the goddess of spring and fertility and as the goddess of the underworld. She is abducted into the wintery world of shadows, where she stays until she starts to long for flowers and a happy life, whereupon she returns to her spring kingdom. Stravinsky’s music embraces in a neo-classical style with sharp lines and clear rhythmic accents, but also reveals a deeply lyrical character in its ethereally floating passages. After this, Ingo Metzmacher will conduct our orchestra in Schumann's optimistic »Spring Symphony«. This work was created in 1841 during an extremely happy period in the composer’s life. Newly wed to his beloved Clara, Schumann sketched it »in utter bliss« in only four days, saying that it was born »in the urgency of spring that takes possession of humankind afresh every year, probably into greatest old age. I did not want to describe, to paint; but that the time at which the symphony was written had an effect on its form, that I do believe.« All of the symphony's themes are based on a signal-like »call to awaken«, the poetic source of which Schumann found in the rhythmic closing lines of a poem by Adolf Böttger: »O wende, wende Deinen Lauf, im Thale blüht der Frühling auf!« (»Change your course, spring is blooming in the valley!«) This time, we will perform the symphony as re-orchestrated by Mahler. As an »encore«, our programme will feature a brand-new work by Japan’s most famous living composer: Toshio Hosokawa’s unmistakable musical language always draws on the tension between Western avant-garde and traditional Japanese culture.

Ingo Metzmacher Conductor
Maximilian Schmitt Tenor

Arnold Schönberg Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene
Berthold Goldschmidt "Mediterranean Songs" - 6 Lieder für Tenor und Orchester
Franz Schreker Kammersymphonie
Toshio Hosokawa "Sakura" Uraufführung im Rahmen des "encore!"-Projekts