Series F1 - Powerful Narratives
The music in this Friday series is full of drama, with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra making use of its entire palette of timbres and moods.
Cosmic sounds, great issues and demoniacal dance rhythms. The composers in this concert series have a great deal on their mind and dare to try to set the great moments of life and the mysteries of nature to music. So here you will find a whole host of graphic titles by such composers as Richard Strauss, Liszt and Elgar – alongside poetical compositions from our own age.
The series begins with dramatic piano concertos by Rachmaninov and Ravel, with Liszt’s virtuoso Totentanz close on their heels. There are several dancing rhythms when the violin maestro Frank Peter Zimmermann plays Stravinsky’s agile violin concerto, and the phenomenon Barbara Hannigan leads us through nocturnal landscape and gleaming moments of illumination.
Brahms’ moving Requiem, headed by Chief Conductor Fabio Luisi, will without a doubt be one of the highlights of this extremely comprehensive concert series that contains energy, adventure, imagination – and a great deal of meditation.
