2st Symphony Concert

Music can be like water to us: Sometimes it ripples peacefully and yet a tiny impulse can be enough to set it in motion. Seemingly of their own accord, high waves arise, quite suddenly descending upon us. Or a raging storm might occur. In this concert programme, selected musical works that describe such timeless natural phenomena are poetically combined. Because the fascination with nature is equally evident in the classical sounds of Joseph Haydn and the powerful words of a poetry slam-text or the noise-like, dynamic music of a composer like Brett Dean, a critical analyst of our times. And so this concert will pay homage to this vital, existential and changeable element which connects us all and is worth preserving in all its beautiful, terrible, inspiring guises.

Program

Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Arethusa from Six Metamorphoses for Solo Oboe Op. 49

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Overture Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Calm sea and prosperous voyage) Op. 27

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Symphony No. 39 in G Minor La Tempesta di Mare Hob. I:39

Paulina Behrendt (*2001)
Slam-Poetry

Brett Dean (*1961)
Water music

Performers

Raquel Pérez-Juana Rodríguez, Oboe
Paulina Behrendt, Slam-Poetry
Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
Stephan Zilias, Conductor
Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover