Aus der neuen Welt

In the organizer's words:

Alma Mahler's Seven Songs take us directly into the world of the turn of the century: Emotions between melancholy and hope, set to music with a deep, almost intimate expressiveness. In the arrangement for medium voice and orchestra, they unfold a tonal dimension that both touches and inspires.
Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, known as "From the New World", is completely different. It builds a bridge between two continents and pours the impressions of a life in a foreign America into large symphonic arcs. Here, longing sounds like a distant memory, pulsating and yet full of vastness. Dvořák's famous cor anglais theme, often referred to as the "song of the lonely wanderer", is just as captivating as the dynamic contrasts between drama and tender lyricism.
An evening that traces very different worlds of sound - and shows how different musical longing can sound.

Program

Dora Pejačević
Overture in D minor

Alma Mahler
Seven songs arranged for voice and orchestra

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor "From the New World"

Performers

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian | Conductor

Tara Erraught | mezzo-soprano

Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra