In 1831, four times as many people died in the Berlin cholera epidemic as in Corona’s first year. Fanny Hensel was a great figure in the city’s musical life and her cantata was a deep bow and a glimmer of hope at that time. It shows an exceptional talent who could not attain the rank of her brother only because of social norms. The concert programme will have achieved its goal when we can delete this movement.
Programme
Fanny Hensel
ORATORIO BASED ON IMAGES FROM THE BIBLE
Modest Mussorgsky
A NIGHT ON THE BARE MOUNTAIN (ARRANGEMENT: NIKOLAI RIMSKI-KORSAKOV)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
THE FIRST WALPURGIS NIGHT OP. 60
Participating
Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
Anke Krabbe SOPRAN
Katrin Wundsam MEZZOSOPRAN
Thomas E. Bauer BARITON
Maximilian Schmitt TENOR
Miklós Sebestyén BASS-BARITON
Choir of the Städtischer Musikverein zu Düsseldorf
Dennis Hansel-Dinar INSTRUCTION
Leiko Ikemura VISUAL INSTRUCTION
David Reiland DIRECTOR