Freiburger Barockorchester / Pablo Heras-Casado
Schubert / Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Hamburg International Music Festival
This concert has already taken place!
€12
|
26
|
50
|
70
|
82
This concert has already taken place!
€12
|
26
|
50
|
70
|
82
-
Doors open 19:00
-
Start 20:00
-
Interval
-
End ca. 22:00
As if the elves were playing
Mythical creatures, nocturnal apparitions, magical romanticism – William Shakespeare certainly didn’t lack imagination. Quite the contrary: his comedy »A Midsummer Night’s Dream« is full of curious figures and magical places that also captured the imagination of a 17-year-old Felix Mendelssohn – so much so that he immediately reached for pen and paper, and set the wonderfully exuberant poetry to music in the form of a concert overture. Mendelssohn captures the charm of the literary model so perfectly in this work that it remains one of his most popular to this day. Between the fairy dance and the famous wedding march, you can even hear the »I-oh« of an enchanted donkey from the orchestra. Mendelssohn later expanded the overture into incidental music for the play, capturing the atmosphere of Shakespeare’s comedy in a unique way. »There is a ribbing and joking in the instruments as if the elves themselves were playing«, commented Robert Schumann.
Complementing that perfectly, the Freiburger Barockorchester performs two highly poetic works by Franz Schubert, a composer Mendelssohn fervently admired. The Freiburger Barockorchester specialises in authentic historical performance practice and always delivers an exuberant performance – so it promises to be a dreamlike evening with a very special sound.
Programme (booklet)
Performers
Freiburger Barockorchester
RIAS Kammerchor Berlin
Mi-Young Kim soprano
Anna Schaumlöffel mezzo-soprano
Max Urlacher acting
conductor Pablo Heras-Casado
Programme
Franz Schubert
Ouvertüre zu »Rosamunde, Fürstin von Cypern« D 797
Sinfonie Nr. 6 C-Dur D 589
– Interval –
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Ein Sommernachtstraum op. 61
Promoter: HamburgMusik
