Barbara Hannigan conducts and sings

Richard Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration, Haydn, Vivier, Khayam

Barbara Hannigan - photo: Milagro Elstak

Barbara Hannigan conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Richard Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration and works by Haydn and Vivier. In a work by Golfam Khayam, Hannigan is also the solo soprano.

The ethereal sounds of Claude Vivier’s Orion and György Ligeti’s Lontano direct our gaze to the stars.

Concert programme

  • Golfam Khayam

    I am not a tale to be told

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 101, ‘The Clock’

  • -- interval --

  • Claude Vivier

    Orion

  • Richard Strauss

    Death and Transfiguration

Performers

About this concert

The versatile conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan, who was awarded the prestigious Polar Music Prize in March, returns to conduct a colourful programme centering around life and transience. This time Hannigan not only conducts, but also employs her pure soprano to sing I am not a tale to be told by Iranian composer Golfam Khayam, a richly detailed work reminiscent of Persian carpet weaving.

In Haydn’s Symphony No. 101 ‘The Clock’ we are made aware of the passing time, Richard Strauss’ was in his twenties when he wrote Death and Transfiguration, looked ahead to the redemption of death. The ethereal sounds of Claude Vivier’s Orion (after the zodiac sign and the mythical hero) direct our gaze to the stars. Eternal homecoming, in Vivier’s words, awaits there.

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About this concert

The versatile conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan, who was awarded the prestigious Polar Music Prize in March, returns to conduct a colourful programme centering around life and transience. This time Hannigan not only conducts, but also employs her pure soprano to sing I am not a tale to be told by Iranian composer Golfam Khayam, a richly detailed work reminiscent of Persian carpet weaving.

In Haydn’s Symphony No. 101 ‘The Clock’ we are made aware of the passing time, Richard Strauss’ was in his twenties when he wrote Death and Transfiguration, looked ahead to the redemption of death. The ethereal sounds of Claude Vivier’s Orion (after the zodiac sign and the mythical hero) direct our gaze to the stars. Eternal homecoming, in Vivier’s words, awaits there.

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