1. Serenadenkonzert

In the organizer's words:

1st Serenade Concert
studio-orchester duisburg
Natalie Hüskens Speaker
Peter Wuttke Conductor

We can often understand music even better when we hear the words to which it is modeled. In a delightful mixture of concert and reading, the studio-orchester duisburg and narrator Natalia Hüskens juxtapose pairs of musical and lyrical works - concrete ones, as in the artistic encounter between Gabriel Fauré and Paul Verlaine or Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Ives, but also imaginary ones. Antonín Dvořák drew inspiration for his "Czech Suite" from the sounds of his homeland, Mendelssohn Bartholdy found it for his "Hebrides Overture" in the vast natural scenery of Scotland. What would the matching poems sound like? The first serenade concert provides the answer.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
The Hebrides op. 26
Gabriel Fauré
Masques et Bergamasques op. 112
Benjamin Britten
Suite on English Folk Tunes op. 90
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on "Greensleeves"
Charles Ives
The Unanswered Question
Antonín Dvořák
Czech Suite op. 39