"Innerworld" - Recital with
Marlis Petersen, soprano
Stephan Matthias Lademann, piano

Lieder by Johannes Brahms, Carl Loewe, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Franz Schubert, Clara and Robert Schumann, Hans Sommer, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner and Hugo Wolf

Béla Bartók: Streichquartett Nr. 1 a-Moll, Sz 40
Johannes Brahms: Ophelia-Lieder, WoO 22
Paul Hindemith: Melancholie op. 13 für Frauenstimme und Streichquartett / nach Gedichten von Christian Morgenstern
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Streichquartett G-Dur, KV 387

Hibiki Oshima, violin
Felix Heckhausen, violin
Maria Rallo Muguruza, viola
Clara Grünwald, violoncello
Ida Aldrian, mezzo-soprano

The young musicians in the Amaris Quartet, from the ranks of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, are joined in this chamber concert by mezzo-soprano Ida Aldrian, who hails from the ensemble of the Staatsoper Hamburg. While the programme opens and closes with pure string quartets by Béla Bartók and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, compositions feature in between for string quartet and voice.

Sombre emotions resonate from the songs of Johannes Brahms, which are based on texts from William Shakespeare‘s »Hamlet«, and Paul Hindemith‘s »Melancholia« inspired by poems about loneliness by Christian Morgenstern. Aribert Reimann‘s transcription of the Brahms songs for voice and string quartet remains loyal to the romantic original. Although Bartók and Mozart did not base their string quartets around a particular narrative, the emotional gestures they convey relate directly to the song compositions: At the time of writing his work, Bartók was tormented by his unrequited love for the violinist Stefi Geyer. In fact, in a letter to her he even described the first movement as a »mourning lament«. Mozart‘s composition dates from 1782, a rather fateful year for the Classical period that marked a young generation of new artists breaking onto the scene. Set within the context of Friedrich Schiller premiering his play »Die Räuber«and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishing his famous »Erlkönig« poem, Mozart‘s composition can be seen as a new departure, as it were, towards a drama that also found expression in purely instrumental music.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Messe C-Dur op. 86 für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 5 c-Moll op. 67

Nikola Hillebrand, soprano
Anna Lucia Richter, mezzo soprano
Ilker Arcayürek, tenor
Manuel Walser, baritone

Wiener KammerOrchester
Wiener Singakademie
Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, conductor

Sabine Devieilhe, soprano
Mathieu Pordoy, piano

"Hommage à Vienne"
works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss, Alban Berg and Hugo Wolf

Georges Bizet: Carmen

Gerard Farreras, Zuniga
Jorge Ruvalcaba, Morales
Martin Muehle, José
David Steffens, Escamillo
Laia Vallés, Frasquita
Maria Theresa Ullrich, Mercédès
Stine Marie Fischer, Carmen
N.N., Micaëla

Staatsopernchor Stuttgart, Staatsorchester Stuttgart

Killian Farrell, conductor
Sebastian Nübling, stage director

Ludwig van Beethoven: Messe C-Dur op. 86 für Soli, Chor und Orchester

Nikola Hillebrand, soprano
Anna Lucia Richter, mezzo soprano
Ilker Arcayürek, tenor
Manuel Walser, baritone

Wiener KammerOrchester
Wiener Singakademie

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro KV 492

Andrè Schuen, Graf Almaviva
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Gräfin Almaviva
Ying Fang, Susanna
Peter Kellner, Figaro
Patricia Nolz, Cherubino

Philippe Jordan, musical direction
Barrie Kosky, stage direction

"Innerworld" - Recital with
Marlis Petersen, soprano
Stephan Matthias Lademann, piano

Lieder by Johannes Brahms, Carl Loewe, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Franz Schubert, Clara and Robert Schumann, Hans Sommer, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner and Hugo Wolf

Sabine Devieilhe, soprano
Mathieu Pordoy, piano

"Hommage à Vienne"
works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss, Alban Berg and Hugo Wolf

Nikolaus Habjan, puppeteer
Simon Meusburger, staging