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10 April 2025 Bern (Switzerland)
Aim high with Korngold
Berner Symphonieorchester conducted by Nicholas Carter - Casino Bern, Grosser Saal
Program Info: Bern Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Carter, conductor Simone Lamsma, violin
In Greek mythology, Icarus flew towards the sun with wings made of wax - and crashed into the sea. Even if the Russian composer Lera Auerbach did not compose program music in the actual sense with Icarus , she describes its suggestive work title as a “door to the listener’s imagination”: the aspiration and “the desire to go beyond the borders into the ecstatic, visionary realm “To go on a high is essentially human.” Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who had to flee the Nazis to the USA and made a career as a film composer in Hollywood, also aimed high. In his violin concerto, Korngold quotes his own film music and displays more vocal qualities than virtuoso fury - which explains why Korngold himself said that the concerto was written more for a Caruso than for a Paganini. Antonín Dvořák, however, composed his eighth symphony on the occasion of his admission to the Bohemian Kaiser Franz Joseph Academy of Science, Literature and Art. “Melodies just come to me,” he enthused to his friend Alois Göbl. Nicholas Carter, chief conductor of the opera and co-opera director at Bühnen Bern, will be at the podium. As a soloist we welcome the Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma, who is from the New York Times celebrated for its “bright, radiant sound”.
Lera Auerbach (*1973) - Icarus for orchestra (2006–2011) Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) - Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major op. 35 (1937–39, rev. 1945), the concerto has themes from the scores for the movies ANOTHER DAWN (1937), ANTHONY ADVERSE (1936) & THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (1937) Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) - Symphony No. 8 G major op. 88 (1889)
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