2. Symphony Concert
Pierre Boulez Notations for orchestra
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C minor
The Notations span the life's work of French composer Pierre Boulez, who is regarded as one of the central figures of New Music after the Second World War. In 1945, he first created his 12 Notations for solo piano - a debut work consisting of twelve pieces of twelve bars each with a clear connection to the twelve-tone technique. Around three decades later, Boulez expanded the miniatures for piano into the powerful-sounding Notations for orchestra, which are characterised by an expressionist intensity and a melodic and rhythmic complexity. Under the direction of Cornelius Meister, who was once Boulez's assistant, this key work of New Music will be combined with Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony. The Eighth begins gloomily and fatefully, its long compositional process accompanied by numerous revisions and self-doubt on the part of the composer. It is the most extensive and largest scored of Bruckner's symphonies. He himself described this monumental work as a "mystery". At the premiere in 1892 in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, the audience went wild with enthusiasm. After each movement, Bruckner had to take several bows on stage and at the end he accepted three large laurel wreaths.
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C minor
The Notations span the life's work of French composer Pierre Boulez, who is regarded as one of the central figures of New Music after the Second World War. In 1945, he first created his 12 Notations for solo piano - a debut work consisting of twelve pieces of twelve bars each with a clear connection to the twelve-tone technique. Around three decades later, Boulez expanded the miniatures for piano into the powerful-sounding Notations for orchestra, which are characterised by an expressionist intensity and a melodic and rhythmic complexity. Under the direction of Cornelius Meister, who was once Boulez's assistant, this key work of New Music will be combined with Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony. The Eighth begins gloomily and fatefully, its long compositional process accompanied by numerous revisions and self-doubt on the part of the composer. It is the most extensive and largest scored of Bruckner's symphonies. He himself described this monumental work as a "mystery". At the premiere in 1892 in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, the audience went wild with enthusiasm. After each movement, Bruckner had to take several bows on stage and at the end he accepted three large laurel wreaths.
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Musical Direction Cornelius Meister
Staatsorchester Stuttgart
There will be an introduction 45 minutes before the concert at Silchersaal.
Staatsorchester Stuttgart
There will be an introduction 45 minutes before the concert at Silchersaal.