6. Philharmonisches Konzert - Träume und Gebete

In the organizer's words:

Dreams and prayers

Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Treviño Conductor
David Orlowsky Clarinet

Olivier Messiaen
Hymne au Saint-Sacrement
Osvaldo Golijov
"Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind"
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D major op. 43

David Orlowsky is an ace on the clarinet: with him, it laughs, cries, sings and laments as if it had a voice of its own. The range of expression that he elicits from his versatile instrument is immense. The clarinettist, who is making his debut with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra with this concert, is just as at home in classical music as he is in klezmer music. He once got to know it through his mentor and teacher Giora Feidman. And this specifically Jewish musical tradition also plays a central role in Osvaldo Golijov's suspenseful suite "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind", in which the composer tells a kind of history of Judaism - from the beginnings with Abraham to the present day. Olivier Messiaen's "Hymn" also has a religious reference, in this case to the "Holy Sacrament" of the Eucharist. Although the score was lost during the Second World War, the composer later reconstructed it from memory. In the second half of the concert, Robert Treviño, who bravely stood in for Eun Sun Kim, who was ill at the Philharmonic Concert in December 2022 with Beethoven's 9th Symphony, conducts Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony, which evokes its composer's closeness to nature and the vastness of the Finnish landscape. It is also ingenious how the composer constructs a complete symphony from a small three-note motif at the beginning - right up to the grandiose finale.