Alsop Marin © Nancy Horowitz
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Alsop
Eröffnungskonzert Wien Modern
Wednesday
30
October
2024
19:30 – ca. 21:30
Großer Saal
Tickets for members from 1 August, for the general public from 8 August, 2024
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Performers
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Christoph Walder, Horn
Anders Nyqvist, Trompete
Krassimir Sterev, Akkordeon
Marin Alsop, Dirigentin
Programme
Nina Šenk
Flux (2021–2024)
Iannis Xenakis
Terretektorh (1965–1966)
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John Luther Adams
Become Ocean (2012–2013)
Note
Produktion Wien Modern in Koproduktion mit RSO Wien
Kooperation Wiener Konzerthaus
Freie Platzwahl
Subscription series
Nouvelles Aventures
Links
https://rso.orf.at
https://www.marinalsop.com
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Music in space
The opening concert of Wien Modern 2024 puts an end to the classic spatial separation between stage and audience: almost 60 years ago, composer and architect Iannis Xenakis created an ear-opening audio and spatial work of art with his rarely performed radical work »Terretektorh«. Part of the score is a 360° spatial concept that brings together 88 orchestral musicians and the audience. Accordingly, Marin Alsop stands in the middle of the Great Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus for the last Wien Modern opening concert under her direction as RSO Principal Conductor. From there, she also directs the waves of sound rolling back and forth over the audience in the spatial composition »Become Ocean«, for which John Luther Adams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Grammy Award ten years ago. The winner of the Erste Bank Composition Prize 2024, Nina Šenk, born in Slovenia in 1982, is expanding the most unusual of her great orchestral works for this festival evening. The three very different works have one thing in common: they make the myth that new music is difficult to communicate, inaccessible etc. look very, very old.