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Symphoniekonzert VIII

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Symphoniekonzert VIII

Two concert overtures of different styles shed light on one another, each focusing on a particularly striking figure from the worlds of theater and opera: Leonore and Othello. With Leonore III, Ludwig van Beethoven created, as it were, a “drama in miniature” that, using purely musical means, reveals emotional states and unfolding processes with great intensity.

In the early 1890s, Antonín Dvořák conceived and composed a trilogy of overtures titled “Nature, Life, Love,” the final part of which is Othello, a powerful yet sensitive work of great poetic beauty and sonic diversity. Moving expressions of a lyrical “I” of great expressive intensity can be found in Gustav Mahler’s Liedern eines fahren Gesellen which mark the beginning of a unique career as a composer and conductor. Leoš Janáček, the nonconformist individualist of early and mid-20th-century music and a friend of Dvořák, brought a distinctive tone to orchestral composition with his 1926 Sinfonietta, featuring striking brass fanfares and unbridled rhythmic energy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ouvertüre Leonore III op. 72b

Antonín Dvořák

Ouverture Othello op. 93

Gustav Mahler

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Leoš Janáček

Sinfonietta

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