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Konzerthausorchester Berlin | Berlin Radio Choir | Joana Mallwitz

Name: Konzerthausorchester Berlin | Berlin Radio Choir | Joana Mallwitz
Start: 2026-09-07T19:30:00
Location: KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Lucerne Festival

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A nearly hour-long Ninth Symphony with chorus and large orchestra: who wouldn’t think of Beethoven? But, “instead of praising joy, that beautiful spark of the gods” — to quote the Schiller line Beethoven sets in his Ninth — Henze said that in his Sinfonia N. 9 he evokes “a world of horror and persecution that continues to cast its shadow.” The work is based on Anna Seghers’s great anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross: seven prisoners escape from ...

Program

Hans Werner Henze - Sinfonia N. 9

Participants

Joana Mallwitz

Conductor

Florian Helgath

Choir Conductor

Berlin Radio Choir

Chorus

Konzerthausorchester Berlin

Orchestra

Lucerne Festival

Producer

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1 dates (7 Sep - 7 Sep)

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7:30 pm

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Lucerne, Switzerland

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