Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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CBSO Chorus
(Chorus Master: Simon Halsey)
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Mariss Jansons
conductor
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Sergej Leiferkus
narrator
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
“A Survivor from Warsaw,” Op. 46
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
“Symphony of Psalms” for choir and orchestra
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
“Adagio for Strings,” Op. 11
Edgar Varèse (1883-1965)
“Amériques”
All four works on this program were written in America or were commissioned by American clients. But along with this external similarity, they also share a sense of spiritual content. Schoenberg’s “A Survivor from Warsaw,” which was composed in 1947 in California, describes the horrid process of selection in a Nazi extermination camp; Barber’s Adagio for Strings has become known as America’s music of public mourning par excellence (it was widely heard, for example, at the death of John F. Kennedy and following the terrorist attacks of 11 September. Meanwhile, the “Symphony of Psalms” marked Stravinsky’s return to the Russian Orthodox faith; Varèse’s “Amériques,” in contrast, celebrates embarking into new worlds with a score that incorporates many sounds the composer discovered in everyday life in New York: a symphony of the metropolis.
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