Mriya Orchestra: »Verklärte Nacht«

Despite being founded in exile after Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the orchestra quickly established itself as an excellent ensemble specializing in contemporary and Ukrainian music, always acting as a cultural bridge between Germany and Ukraine and in the context of war and exile. This year, the young ensemble’s first album will be released. The title track is Arnold Schoenberg’s »Verklärte Nacht« (Transfigured Night) in the 1917 orchestral version (in the middle of World War I), which he revised in 1943 during World War II while in exile in the United States.

The concert opens with a musical tribute to Hamburg by Carl Philipp Emanuel. For two decades, Johann Sebastian Bach’s son shaped the cultural life of Hamburg as its music director. From his six Hamburg symphonies, we will hear the Fifth in B minor. The concert will also feature rarely heard, moving works by Ukrainian composers Valentin Silvestrov, Zoltan Almashi, and Anna Kuzina-Rozhdestvenska.

With a welcoming address by Dr Iryna Tybinka, Consul General of Ukraine in Hamburg. The concert is being organised in cooperation with musicians from Krzyżowa-Music.