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9 concerts

2018-02-03 15:00 Stora salen

Göteborgs Symfoniker

Programme

J S Bach Largo from Keyboard Concerto No. 5, F Minor, Bwv 1056 3 min

Reinvere Through the Lens Darkly 17 min

J S Bach Fuga II .Allegro con moto from The Art of Fugue 3 min

J S Bach Canon I. Allegro assai from The Art of Fugue 2 min

J S Bach Allegro moderato from Keyboard Concerto No. 5, F Minor, Bwv 1056 3 min

J S Bach Canon II. Allegro tranquilo from The Art of Fugue 1 min

J S Bach Fuge VII. Andantino from The Art of Fugue 4 min

Bela Bartók (1881-1945) Concerto for Orchestra Introduzione Gioco delle coppie Elegia Intermezzo interrotto Finale When this music was written in 1943, Bela Bartók had two years left to live. He had come to the United States fleeing a Europe at war and clawed his way through a few lean years in New York. The honorary doctorate at Harvard provided no income. In addition, he became increasingly ill, what previously appeared to be tuberculosis turned out to be leukemia. But he continued to compose as always. Work was his life - and pleasure too, if you will. Like a child, he rested by doing other things. He was first and foremost a music ethnologist, that is, a recorder and collector of folk music. And it was among other things this immeasurable library, more than 13,000 melodies, he was so keen to save the Second World War. Countless trips in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Turkey were made with a phonograph as a memory aid. In between, he composed, on top of that a whole lot of teaching as income and change, and of course an extensive activity as a concert pianist in many countries. In addition, he was interested in collecting plants, beetles, learning new languages. Palestrina's music was always on the piano and he never traveled without his thumbed score of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring under his arm. Is there a diagnosis for this? we would ask today. The music Bela Bartók wrote was highly influenced by all the music he saw and heard on his collecting trips, but in the later works you can also hear how fascinated he was by the Baroque masters. The concerto for orchestra was commissioned by the Sergei Koussevitsky Music Foundation. Bartók himself has described the music as a journey from austerity via an ominous song to a life-affirming ending. Like Mozart, he composed incredibly quickly, he couldn't get an idea out of his head until the next one appeared. With such a cacophony within, it is no wonder that throughout his life he sought out quiet places. Bartok himself saw the collection of folk music as his greatest and most important deed for more than one reason: "My own idea is the brotherhood of peoples, brotherhood despite all wars and conflicts. I try - as best I can - to serve that idea in my music: therefore I reject no influences, whether Slovak, Romanian, Arabic, or from other sources." (Bartók, 1931) KATARINA A KARLSSON

J S Bach Air from Suite in D major 2 min

Intermission 25 min

J S Bach Fuge XVI. Allegro Moderato from The Art of Fugue 6 min

Zender Der Leiermann from Schuberts 'Winterreise' (1993) Eine komponierte Interpretation 6 min

J S Bach Affettuoso from Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 3 min

Beethoven Andante from Piano Concerto No 4 5 min

J S Bach Canon III. Presto non troppo from The Art of Fugue 2 min

Bruckner Finale from Symphony No. 4 "Romantische" 24 min

J S Bach Keyboard Concerto No. 5, F Minor, Bwv 105 3 min