JUNGE DEUTSCHE PHILHARMONIE
JONATHAN NOTT Conductor
MICHELLE BREEDT Mezzo-soprano
MAURICE RAVEL
Valses nobles et sentimentales
GUSTAV MAHLER
Kindertotenlieder
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony no. 15 in A major, op. 141
"Often I think they have only gone out! Soon they'll get home again!" - moving lines, as they describe the desperate attempt to once again evoke the image of an ideal world, when an idyll has long since been destroyed, a happiness shattered. It is only one of 423 poems that Friedrich Rückert wrote in a great creative frenzy after the loss of his two daughters. With his setting of five of these poems, Gustav Mahler composed a no less touching dirge of infinite depth, a shattering requiem that wants to remember the deceased children forever. Memory is also at the forefront of Shostakovich's 15th Symphony: As a tribute to memory and its precious treasures, Shostakovich populated his work with many musical quotations, giving it the character of a life chronicle. The fact that this musical work of remembrance is performed by a youthful orchestra like the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, of all orchestras, proves to be a particularly fine testimony to the way the future deals with the past.
With the kind support of the Gesellschaft der Freunde der Alten Oper Frankfurt.
Text source and further information on the event at:
https://www.alteoper.de/de/programm/veranstaltung.php?id=514619273
