AOV Winterkonzerte 2025

In the organizer's words:

In its winter concerts in January 2025, the AOV Göttingen is devoting itself to the deep human conflict between love and disappointment, life and death, joy and sorrow.

Rimsky-Korsakov's overture to the opera "The Tsar's Bride" already carries the audience from a temporary feeling of the arrogance of love to dramatic and threatening moments of betrayal.

Mahler's touching cycle of "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen", in which he deals with the grief of unrequited love, follows on directly from this conflict, also musical, between cheerful and dramatically dark moments. The experienced concert and opera soloist Christoph Scheeben, who has already worked with artists such as Ingeborg Danz, Christoph Prégardien and Janine Jansen and is known above all for his nuanced vocal performance beyond classical music, has been recruited as the baritone.

In the grand finale, the orchestra shows its full sound spectrum across all dynamics, moods and

across all dynamics, moods and instruments. Tchaikovsky's 6th and final symphony, the "Pathétique", is initially moving as a poignant journey through life until it finally culminates in an unusually slow final movement, a kind of requiem.

The AOV Göttingen welcomes Tim Hüttemeister as its new conductor this semester. He only recently conducted his master's concert at the Detmold University of Music, but can already draw on a broad range of experience in music theater and orchestral music, including collaborations with the Staatskapelle Halle, the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra and the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra.