Canceled: To the Memory of an Angel

Event has already taken place. The concert has been canceled due to illness.

Concert length: 2 h incl. intermission Scene: Stora salen

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Thursday 20 January 2022 19.30 — Event has already taken place

Recorded for GSOplay
Friday 21 January 2022 18.00 — Event has already taken place

Livestreamed on GSOplay
Saturday 22 January 2022 15.00 — Event has already taken place

Event has already taken place

The concert has been canceled due to illness. The ticket office will contact you who bought tickets for the concert and money will be refunded, here you will find more information.

The previously announced program has changed due to adaptations to the pandemic situation.

Barbara Hannigan in music of grief and compassion – a song dedicated to the Algerian freedom fighter Djamila Boupacha and Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, “To the memory of an angel”.

Djamila Boupacha was a freedom fighter who was arrested and tortured by French forces during the Algerian crisis in the early 1960s. Simone de Beauvoir wrote a gripping text that Luigi Nono composed for solo soprano. Alban Berg’s moving Violin Concerto with talented Veronika Eberle as soloist, dedicated to “an angel”, Manon Gropius (daughter of Alma Mahler and Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius), a young woman who died at the age of 18 but managed to spread a singular light during her short life.

Johann Sebastian Bach managed a lot in his life but one fugue remained unfinished, the last in his monumental work The Art of the Fugue. Luigi Berio wrote an arrangement for orchestra that fades into a strange, enigmatic silence. Haydn’s symphonies in the middle of the 100’s are pure “Sturm und Drang”, and this also applies to the emotional Symphony No. 49, “La Passione”, which keeps listeners in a firm grip.