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Festival Kultura Natura
PROGRAMME
JOSEPH HAYDN: Symphony no. 26 in D minor Hob. I:26 Lamentatione
GUSTAV MAHLER: Blumine
CLAUDE VIVIER: Lonely Child
GUSTAV MAHLER/ BENJAMIN BRITTEN: What the Wild Flowers tell me
GIACINTO SCELSI: Elohim
RICHARD WAGNER: Siegfried-Idyll WWV 103
- Conductor Ilan Volkov
- Soprano Claire Booth
ABOUT THIS CONCERT
This concert at NOSPR Concert Hall is part of the second edition of Festival Katowice Kultura Natura. Invited as “Orchestra in Residence”, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra plays two different programmes under the batons of Ilan Volkov and Thomas Søndergård, with soprano Claire Booth as soloist in both.
The MCO’s two concert programmes shed light on different aspects of the concept “Spirituality”, the theme chosen for this year, the second edition of the festival. This programme presents a kaleidoscope of human emotions, ranging from religious sorrow in Haydn’s Lamentatione symphony to peaceful joy in Wagner’s Siegfried-Idyll. At the centre of the programme are Claude Vivier’s “song of solitude” Lonely Child and Giacinto Scelsi’s spherical Elohim.
In this concert, Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov makes his debut with the MCO. Soprano Claire Booth returns to work with the orchestra for the third time, after tours to Lucerne in 2009 and Aldeburgh in 2015.
This short tour is the MCO’s second visit to Poland. The Festival Katowice Kultura Natura was founded in 2015 by Alexander Liebreich, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR). Their newly built home, NOSPR Concert Hall, has already become a cultural landmark, revitalising the post-industrial landscape of Katowice.
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