Jakub Hrusa & Bamberger Symphoniker

Synopsis

Depth of feeling, melancholy and sadness: the programme of this concert with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under their chief conductor Jakub Hrůša revolves around this triad. The concert begins with the Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a musical declaration of love by the composer to his wife Alma. An ideal prelude to Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), the composer’s “swan song”, written in 1948, at a time when Strauss saw his world in ruins after the war and was already plagued by illness. American soprano Corinne Winters “shone with intensity and bright heights” (Der Standard). The concert closes with Suk’s symphonic monumental work Asrael. In it, Suk deals with two strokes of fate, first the death of his father-in-law Antonín Dvořák and a little later also the surprising death of his wife, Dvořák’s daughter. “What a blast” (Der Standard)

Additional Info

• No: A045502600000
• Composer: Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Josef Suk
• Conductor: Jakob Hrusa
• Orchestra: Bamberger Symphoniker
• Artists: Corinne Winters
• Production year: 2023
• Run time: 01:51:00
• Director: Robert Gummlich
• Producers: UNITEL, Medici.tv, Bamberger Symphoniker, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien
• Format: 4K