MAHLER AND FRIENDS
We gladly present the 46th German-Scandinavian Orchestra Week from December 27th, 2021 to January 5th, 2022. The first part of the concert programme focuses on Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. In them, man’s forlornness, the fragility of his soul and an omnipresent nearness to death are thematised, but the beauty of the world and its nature are also sung about. Edvard Grieg’s rarely performed ballad Den Bergtekne and the orchestral song Kom nu hit, död by Jean Sibelius, which is based on a Shakespeare sonnet, also revolve around these motifs; we place these two small masterpieces alongside Gustav Mahler’s great song cycle. The soloist is the young Icelandic baritone Jóhann Kristinsson.
The first half of the concert will be concluded by Sibelius’ brilliant symphonic poem Lemminkäinen zieht heimwärts; it tells the story of the Kalevala hero Lemminkäinen, who is awakened from death by his magical mother and powerfully returns to life.
The main The second part of the concert programme features Igor Stravinsky’s famous Feuervogel Suite from 1919Suite.
Gala concert January 4, 2022 | 20:00 | Berlin Philharmonie
Deutsch-Skandinavische Jugend-Philharmonie
Andreas Peer Kähler conductor
Jóhann Kristinsson, Baritone (Hamburg / Reykjavík)
Edvard Grieg
Den Bergtekne
Ballad for Baritone and Orchestra op. 32
Gustav Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Jean Sibelius
Kom nu hit, död
Orchestral song after Shakespeare op. 60,1
Lemminkäinen zieht heimwärts
Symphonic poem op. 22,4
Igor Strawinsky
The Firebird, suite for orchestra (1919 version)
Further events
Family concert
On Sunday, January 2, 2022 at 16:00 at the Kammermusiksaal of the Philharmonie
An imaginative and child-friendly moderated concert, in which the orchestra’s instruments are presented, the fairy tale about the firebird is told and Stravinsky’s impressive orchestral suite is performed.
Adventure concert
On Monday, January 3, 2022 at 20:00 at JugendKulturZentrum PUMPE, Lützowstr. 42, 10787 Berlin
A charmingly moderated concert, in which an exclusively small number of guests sit amongst the orchestra musicians.
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