Munich Philharmonic: Roussel / Ravel / Britten / HaydnBarbara Hannigan (conductor), Stéphane Degout (baritone)
This event is in the past.
Barbara Hannigan never fails to come up with exceptional programme concepts. The motto of this selection of works is “contrasts between nature and metropolis”, for which the Canadian singer and conductor has once again unearthed some rarely performed orchestral treasures.
This event is in the past.
Barbara Hannigan never fails to come up with exceptional programme concepts. The motto of this selection of works is “contrasts between nature and metropolis”, for which the Canadian singer and conductor has once again unearthed some rarely performed orchestral treasures.
- Stéphane Degout, baritone
- Barbara Hannigan, conductor
In his masterfully orchestrated “Le Festin de l’araignée”, Albert Roussel takes a magnifying glass to the creatures of the meadow. With “Histoires naturelles”, Maurice Ravel presents five succinct sketches of various animals, here in a version for baritone and orchestra. Benjamin Britten, conversely, describes the glamour and dark shadows of the modern city in his expressionist “Les Illuminations”. Joseph Haydn wrote his last symphony for a metropolis of the early 18th-century, thereby creating one of the seminal works of the Viennese classical period.
Programme
- Albert Roussel: “Le Festin de l’araignée” (The Spider’s Feast), Op 17
- Maurice Ravel: “Histoires naturelles”
- Benjamin Britten: “Les Illuminations”, Op 18
- Joseph Haydn: Symphony No 104 in D major, Hob. l:104 “Salomon”
