Abschlusskonzert Dresdner Stadtfest

In the organizer's words:

Drama meets Romanticism: when the Norwegian national poet Henrik Ibsen and his compatriot, the Norwegian Edward Grieg, met in Rome in 1866, they immediately took a liking to each other. No wonder Ibsen later asked the composer to write the music for his play "Peer Gynt" - at the time, it was almost unthinkable to stage a great play without incidental music. But as good as the music was, it would have been long forgotten if Grieg had not summarized it in two suites for orchestra. Today, the work with the flute melody from the "Morning Mood" or the striking sounds of the bassoon in the "Hall of the Mountain King" is regarded as Romantic music par excellence. As a furious finale to the Dresden City Festival, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra will present it open air on Theaterplatz under the direction of Tabita Berglund - who could be more suitable than the new Principal Guest Conductor from Norway?

Program

Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt: Prelude - In the Wedding Court
"Peer Gynt" Suite No. 1 from the incidental music (1876/88)
Peer Gynt Suite No. 2

Édouard Lalo
Fantasie norvégienne

Pablo de Sarasate
Carmen Fantasy

Performers

Tabita Berglund | Conductor (Principal Guest Conductor 25/26)

Leonhard Baumgartner | Violin

Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra