NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Sir George Benjamin
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George Benjamin’s »Dream of the Song«, premiered in 2015, is a total work of art whose music is simultaneously delicate and dense – like the play of light on water, under which fish occasionally scurry past. The British composer, to whom a special focus series is dedicated this season, chose eleventh-century Hebrew verse and poems by Federico García Lorca as the textual foundation for the work.
Performers
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
NDR Vokalensemble
Bejun Mehta countertenor
conductor Sir George Benjamin
Programme
Igor Strawinsky
Symphonies d’instruments à vent
Claude Debussy
Nocturnes / Sinfonisches Triptychon für Orchester und Frauenchor
– Interval –
George Benjamin
Dream of the Song
Alexander Skrjabin
Le poème de l'extase / Tondichtung für großes Orchester op. 54
Estimated end time
21:55
Festival
Multiverse George Benjamin