Ondřej Adámek: "Where are you?" / world premiere
Magdalena Kožená, Mezzo-Soprano
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
VIDEO LIVESTREAM AND RADIO BROADCAST
BR-KLASSIK will broadcast the concert on Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 6.00 pm on the video livestream via the musica viva Media Center and on BR-KLASSIK Concert. The concert recording will be broadcast by BR-KLASSIK on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, starting at 8.05 pm on the radio.
PROGRAMME
Henry Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Ondřej Adámek: "Where are you ?", for Mezzo-soprano and Orchestra [2020]
commissioned by musica viva and the London Symphony Orchestra | world premiere
I. Slotha – setting a trap for divine
II. Where are you ?
III. Peter sent me back
IV. Sharp Point
V. Saeta
VI. Confession
VII. An Angel
VIII. Levitation
IX. You Are Not There!
X. Gentle whisper
XI. Everywhere
Olivier Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
für Bläser und Orchester
Following his guest performance with the London Symphony Orchestra two years ago, Sir Simon Rattle will now give his début appearance in the Music Viva series at the helm of the BRSO and the Bavarian Radio Chorus. Together with Magdalena he will conduct the première of Ondřej Adámek’s song cycle. The songs are inspired by many different things including, Aramaic text, specific verses from The Bible, Moravian folksong, a traditional Sevillian Easter chant and the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita.
The lyrics and the comment on the cycle are available here (in German).
