Alder Louise © Will Alder
Marin Alsop © Lukas Beck
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Alder / Alsop
Monday
29
January
2024
19:30
Großer Saal
Performers
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Louise Alder, Sopran
Marin Alsop, Dirigentin
Programme
Claude Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1892–1894)
Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade (1903)
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Gustav Mahler
Symphonie Nr. 4 G-Dur für großes Orchester und Sopran-Solo (1899–1901)
Note
Gemeinsam veranstaltet mit RSO Wien
Medienpartner Ö1 Club
Subscription series
RSO Wien
Links
https://rso.orf.at
https://www.marinalsop.com
https://www.louisealder.co.uk
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Modern diversity
»Since the flute of the ›Faun‹ [...] music breathes differently«, wrote Pierre Boulez about Claude Debussy's »Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune«, referring to its significance for contemporary music. In the orchestral work inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé's poem, exotic whole-tone scales, archaic pentatonicism and modal turns of phrase appear side by side on an equal footing. Debussy thus abolished the traditional contrast between consonance and dissonance. Around ten years later, Maurice Ravel dedicated himself to the fairytale world of »One Thousand and One Nights" in "Shéhérazade«. He celebrated his first major success with these three orchestral songs. Louise Alder will be the soloist at the RSO Vienna concert under chief conductor Marin Alsop. The soprano can also be heard in the fourth movement of Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony. The work, completed in 1901, is one of the »Wunderhorn symphonies« and shows once again how inseparable the genres of song and symphony are in Mahler's work.
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