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Feather-light flights of fancy

Name: Feather-light flights of fancy
Start: 2025-06-02T19:30:00
Location: Die Glocke

Bremer Philharmoniker

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A hen, a swan, the nightingale and other birds come together here: Haydn had anything but poultry in mind when he wrote his Symphony No. 83, but because of the "cackling" theme in the second movement, a clever contemporary gave the work its famous nickname - "La poule". Hindemith, on the other hand, used some themes from folk songs in his viola concerto, including in the third movement. "Seid ihr nicht der Schwanendreher" is heard there - and the...

Program

Paul Hindemith - “Der Schwanendreher” Concerto based on old folk songs for viola and orchestra

Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 83 in G minor

Igor Stravinsky - Le chant du rossignol. Poème symphonique

Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Un petit rien. Music, light, lunar and ornithological

Participants

Elena Schwarz

Conductor

Tabea Zimmermann

Viola

Bremer Philharmoniker

Producer