CANCELLED: NDR Chor / Kaspars Putniņš
The concert programme of the Elbphilharmonie and the Laeiszhalle cannot go ahead as planned due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. This event has had to be cancelled – it will not be rescheduled on an alternative date. Under the following link you can request a refund of your ticket price or expressly forgo the refund in support of the cultural scene: Information on ticket refunds and waiving refunds for cancelled events
The theme of this concert with Kaspars Putniņš is the dialogue between cultures under the symbol of the lotus flower. The Latvian conductor presided over a sensational project with the NDR Chor last season and was immediately invited back. Toshio Hosokawa sees his choral work as a homage to Schumann, and the Japanese composer’s diverse oeuvre has been influenced by both cultures. »The lotus flower shudders / Before the sun’s splendour / The moon, he is her lover / She perfumes and weeps and trembles / For love and love’s pain«, so goes the poem by Heinrich Heine. Hosokawa paints an image of the Buddha sitting on a lotus flower, a symbol of transcendence. In Asian culture, the dialogue between the lotus and the moon has a deep spiritual meaning. Jonathan Harvey also provides for a fascinating dialogue – between the words of the Heart Sutra and the poems of E. E. Cummings.
Performers
NDR Vokalensemble
director Kaspars Putniņš
Programme
Johannes Brahms
Einförmig ist der Liebe Gram op. 113/13
Robert Schumann
Die Lotosblume / aus: Myrthen op. 25
Die Kapelle / aus: Romanzen op. 69
Der Wassermann / aus: Romanzen op. 91
Toshio Hosokawa
Sen VI für Schlagzeug solo
Jonathan Harvey
Forms of Emptiness
Robert Schumann
Vier doppelchörige Gesänge op. 141
Toshio Hosokawa
Die Lotosblume – Hommage an Robert Schumann für gemischten Chor und Schlagwerk
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