Donnerstagskonzert № 2

In the organizer's words:

Edward Elgar's E minor Serenade opens the program with a chamber music-influenced early work full of lyrical warmth and subtle melancholy, with Tomasz Skweres' "Ligament" at its heart. This work not only mediates compositionally between the pieces of the evening, but also builds bridges between time, space and sound. Newly conceived each time, it takes up electro-acoustically altered motifs from the surrounding works and combines them into a new whole. The classical concert framework is also broken up spatially: Sounds wander through the space, musicians enter the hall from an unusual direction - the audience becomes part of a living sound process. Elgar's monumental late-romantic A flat major symphony concludes the program - as the symphonic climax and goal of a sophisticated musical dramaturgy.

Program

Edward Elgar:
Serenade in E minor for string orchestra op. 20

Tomasz Skweres:
"Ligament" for small orchestra and tape

Edward Elgar:
Symphony No. 1 in A flat major op. 55

Performers

Jena Philharmonic Orchestra
Harry Ogg, conductor