Synopsis Pre-concert talk by Dinis Sousa at 4:30 PM. Accessibility: Session with audio description. Orquestra XXI and the Lisboa Cantat Choir present Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, in the year marking the bicentenary of the composer's death. Premiered in 1824, the work marked the history of Western music by integrating, in its final movement, soloists and choir on verses from Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy. Beethoven thus gives musical form to an aspiration of fraternity among peoples that remains associated with the reception of the symphony. The program also includes the national premiere of Ambra, by Norwegian composer Kristine Tjøgersen, conceived as a tribute to Beethoven's work. Known for a language that crosses sound, nature and imagination, Tjøgersen proposes a contemporary response to the composer's influence. Placed in dialogue, the two works bring together different times and languages, revealing Beethoven's permanence in today's musical creation.
PROGRAM Kristine Tjøgersen (1982) Ambra [joint commission by Orquestra XXI, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia and SWR Sinfonieorchester] Ludwig van Beethoven (1770, 1827) Symphony No. 9 "Choral" in D minor, Op. 125 I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso II. Scherzo: Molto vivace, Presto III. Adagio molto e cantabile IV. Presto, Allegro assai, O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!, Allegro assai
ARTISTIC TEAM Musical Direction Dinis Sousa Orquestra XXI Soloists to be announced Lisboa Cantat Symphonic Choir Co-production Centro Cultural de Belém, Orquestra XXI
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