Traditions Reborn

Traditions Reborn


2021-07-09 Fri 19:30National Concert Hall500、800、1200、1500、2000Buy
Shao-Chia Lü, conductor
Elisabeth Jansson, mezzo soprano
Fang-Hao Chao, baritone

Johann Sebastian Bach: Ricercar a 6, from Musical Offering, BWV1079 (arr. by Anton Webern)
Gustav Mahler: Collections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
-‘Rheinlegendchen’
-‘Lied des Verfolgten im Turme’
-‘Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht’
-‘Lob des hohen Verstandes’
-‘Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen’
- ‘Trost im Unglück’
- ‘Verlor’ne Müh’
- ‘Das irdische Leben’
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1, Op. 25 (arr. by Arnold Schonberg)

Shao-Chia Lü returns to the podium for the final orchestral program of the season, in which the season’s theme of “Carrying Forward the Heritage of Time” is unmistakably in evidence. Works by Bach and Brahms originally composed for small forces (keyboard and piano quartet, respectively) have been reimaged for full orchestra by twentieth-century composers who, ironically, are remembered mostly for their twelve-tone music that many listeners find difficult to comprehend. How they refashioned old-fashioned music into full orchestral scores provides testament to the enduring greatness of the original music and to the skill Webern and Schoenberg demonstrate in their orchestrations.