Composer

Tchaikovsky considered Ukraine a second home and refuge, and he began work on this symphony while staying just outside of Kiev. One of his most joyful compositions, this symphony creatively incorporates Ukrainian folk songs. The concert features a percussion concerto commissioned for Christoph Sietzen, who has been praised as an outstanding talent, “a refreshingly natural musician notable for his technical mastery and powerful stage presence.”

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Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony

Severance Music Center

Legends swirl around the creation of Mozart’s Requiem, written on his deathbed and left unfinished: Who was the mysterious figure who commissioned the composer? What parts of the work were truly his own? And was Mozart composing his own funeral mass with this final artistic statement? Many of these questions were explored hauntingly (abeit suspiciously) in the movie Amadeus. We are nevertheless left with a work of overwhelming power — at once intensely dramatic and deeply personal — that touches the core of our humanity.

Mozart's Requiem

ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart

Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Emilio Pomàrico conducts works by Staud and Posadas

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Place of longing – role model – victim: the relationship between humans and nature is complex. Per Nørgård uses texts by Rainer Maria Rilke to search for a connection to nature in sound. Christian Mason composes according to the principles of swarm intelligence, observes the social strategies of fish and birds for living and surviving and asks: is adaptation the best survival strategy for us humans too? The willows in Johannes Maria Staud's choral work can tell you a thing or two about this, as they were witnesses to the death marches that passed by them. And the Korean composer Younghi Pagh-Paan's existential choral work tells of the earth that means home. It is about rural exodus, exploitation and the radical restructuring of Korean society to the point of "loss of the soul".

Johannes Maria Staud

Composer

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 6, 2025

ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart · SWR Symphonieorchester

Feb 8, 2025

Emilio Pomàrico conducts works by Staud and Posadas · SWR Symphonieorchester

May 16, 2025

Gastkonzert: Natur und Mensch · SWR Symphonieorchester

Past events

5 - 7 Oct, 2023

Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony · The Cleveland Orchestra

9 - 12 Mar, 2023

Mozart's Requiem · The Cleveland Orchestra

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