| ›Farewell and Departure‹
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, K. 477
Heinz Holliger
Ostinato funebre for Small Orchestra from Scardanelli Exercises
Antonín Dvorák
Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 9 in C major, D. 944 (›Great‹)
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1st Mini Subscription Concert
23-01-2010, 8:00 PM
Bremen, The Glocke
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Heinz Holliger, Conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, Violin
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| Formally, Holliger's Ostinato funèbre recalls the Masonic Funeral Music. Although Mozart laments the death of two of his fellow freemasons in the style of a chorale fantasia, Holliger makes the horror heard in the sounds of the machine age. The image of the poet Hölderlin, for whom Holliger mourns, emerges between Mozart's chords - isolated, withdrawn, and trapped in his poetic winter journeys. Two outstanding works of their time bridge the centuries with the theme of death. When Schubert quotes the death motif from Mozart's Don Giovanni in his ›Great‹ C major Symphony, the listener has already come a long way. Taut and rhythmically powerful, the work alternates between grand style and intimate gesture. Dvorák's Violin Concerto is as songlike as Schubert - life here is filled with elegy, narrative, and grace.
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