HOSOKAWA, BRITTEN, BEETHOVEN
“Enough had. City rumblings, evenings, and under the sun, and always … Taking off into fresh affections and the latest buzz!” - Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations. The Kammerakademie Potsdam and its musical director, Antonello Manacorda, heed Arthur Rimbaud’s appeal to leave behind the noisy machinery of urban life and civilization to listen for new soundscapes in nature:
Benjamin Britten’s settings of selected poems from Rimbaud’s Illuminations, performed by soprano Anna Prohaska, are framed by Toshio Hosokawa’s Blossoming II, which was inspired by the life cycle of the lotus flower, and Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony.
- Toshio Hosokawa - Blossoming II
- Benjamin Britten - Les Illuminations Op. 18, Song Cycle on Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
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- Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major Op. 68 "Pastoral"
Additional information
Participating artists
Kammerakademie Potsdam
Antonello Manacorda
Anna Prohaska
Events
Datum
Pierre Boulez Saal
