Wiener Symphoniker / Wiener Singakademie / Quasthoff / Carydis
Monday
28
March
2022
19:30 – ca. 21:15
Großer Saal
Performers
Wiener Symphoniker
Wiener Singakademie
Einstudierung: Heinz Ferlesch
Solist der Wiener Sängerknaben, Knabensopran
Thomas Quasthoff, Sprecher
Constantinos Carydis, Dirigent
Programme
Charilaos Perpessas
Christus Symphony (1948–1950) (EA)
***
Anton Bruckner
Virga Jesse floruit. Graduale für gemischten Chor (1885)
Arnold Schönberg
A Survivor from Warsaw »Ein Überlebender aus Warschau« op. 46 für Erzähler, Männerchor und Orchester (1947)
Leonard Bernstein
Chichester Psalms (1965)
Charles Ives
The Unanswered Question (Two Contemplations Nr. 1) (1908)
Note
Dieses Konzert wird im Rahmen einer Kooperation zwischen der Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft und den Wiener Symphonikern veranstaltet. Weitere Informationen zur Datenverarbeitung bei Kooperationsveranstaltungen, Speicherdauer und Ihren Rechten finden Sie in unserer
Datenschutzerklärung.
Subscription series
Wiener Symphoniker
Links
https://www.wienersingakademie.at
https://www.wienersymphoniker.at
http://www.thomas-quasthoff.com
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Shattering work of confession
»For a few seconds after the last note, it was as silent as in a crypt, and only slowly could the listeners break free from the spell of what they had heard.« In one of the last letters sent from Europe to the composer Arnold Schönberg, exiled in California, before his death in July 1951, his son Georg describes deeply affected impressions from the Vienna Konzerthaus. Six years after the end of the war, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra had given the Austrian premiere of the Holocaust cantata »A Survivor from Warsaw« in the Great Hall.
Arnold Schoenberg created a stirring work of confession from his insights into the shattering dissonances of humanity and the horrors of the Holocaust. The cantata is a snapshot of National Socialist totalitarianism and its overcoming through collective (Jewish) identity in monotheistic faith.