GRAFENEGG ACADEMY
1-8 JULY 2018
GRAFENEGG, AUSTRIA
The new annually chosen Grafenegg Academy Orchestra is a new initiative of Campus Grafenegg and has been established especially for the two-week programme of the Grafenegg Academy. This year, the international personnel of the Orchestra with EUYO alumni at its heart met for the first time in Grafenegg under the direction of Campus Grafenegg Artistic Director Leon Botstein.
Sunday 1 July, 11:00
Programme 1. In the Wake of Catastrophe:
The Politics of Modernism, 1918–1945
Auditorium Grafenegg
Dennis Russell Davies Conductor
Thomas Hampson Soloist and speaker
Kurt Weill
Symphony No.2
Arnold Schönberg
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, op.41
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
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Sunday 1 July, 20:00
Programme 2. Chaos and Uncertainty:
The Music of Faith and Nostalgia
Wolkenturm Grafenegg
Leon Botstein Conductor
Ľuba Orgonášová Soprano
Elisabeth Kulman Alto
Bernarda Fink Alto
Christopher Maltman Baritone
Max Reger
Requiem op.144b
Richard Strauss
Die Tageszeiten (1928) op.76
Karol Szymanowski
Stabat Mater op.53
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Sunday 8 July, 11:00
Programme 3. New Mores and Tastes:
The Reinvention of the Opera
Auditorium Grafenegg
Leon Botstein Conductor
Christiane Libor Soprano
Iris Vermillion Alto
Peter Lodahl Tenor
Christopher Maltman Baritone
Dietrich Henschel Baritone
and others
Ernst Krenek
Der Diktator
Paul Hindemith
Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen
Sancta Susanna
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Sunday 8 July, 20:00
Programme 4. The Conscience of the Artist
Wolkenturm Grafenegg
Neeme Järvi Conductor
Leon Botstein Conductor
Michael Nagy Baritone
Eduard Tubin
Symphony n.5
Othmar Schoeck
Lebendig begraben for Baritone and Orchestra op. 40 (1927)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony n. 5 in D minor op. 47 (1937)