Bernstein Copland Sibelius

23. April 2023

Leonard Bernstein
Divertimento for Orchestra

Aaron Copland
Clarinet Concerto

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

  • Duration :
    approx. 1 H. 50 Min. Inkl. Pause after 1st part after approx. 40 Min.
  • More information:
    Introduction 45 min before the performance.

Music Direction:
Yutaka Sado

Yutaka Sado

Yutaka Sado, in Kyoto geboren, war 1993 bis 2010 Chefdirigent des Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris. 2010 gab er in Turin sein italienisches Operndebüt mit Peter Grimes von Benjamin Britten in einer Inszenierung von Willy Decker. Seit 2005 ist er Künstlerischer Direktor des Hyogo Performing Arts Center und Chefdirigent des PAC-Orchesters. 2003 gründete er das Super Kids Orchestra, das die talentiertesten Schulkinder der Unter- und Mittelstufe aus ganz Japan im Rahmen eines Musikerziehungsprogramms fördert. Seit der Spielzeit 2015/16 ist er Chefdirigent des Tonkünstler-Orchesters. Sein Vertrag bei den Tonkünstlern wurde bis zum Sommer 2025 verlängert. Ab 2023 ist er zugleich Chefdirigent des New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra und seit 2022 auch künstlerischer Berater des Orchesters, das 1972 von Seiji Ozawa mitgegründet wurde. Er arbeitete zudem mit den Berliner Philharmonikern, dem Deutschen Symphonie-Orchester, dem Konzerthausorchester Berlin, dem Bayerischen Staatsorchester in München, den Rundfunksinfonieorchestern des BR, NDR, SWR und WDR sowie dem Orchestre de la Suisse- Romande, dem London Symphony und dem London Philharmonic Orchestra, dem BBC Philharmonic, dem Orchestre de Paris und dem Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Er gewann Dirigierpreise wie 1989 den Grand Prix des 39. «Concours international de jeunes chefs d'orchestre» und 1995 den Grand Prix des Leonard Bernstein Jerusalem International Music Competition. Seine enge Verbundenheit zu Leonard Bernstein führte ihn als «Conductor in Residence» zu dessen Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo.


Cast


Klarinette Robert Pickup

Robert Pickup

The clarinetist Robert Pickup was born in Great Britain and moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. There he studied clarinet with Herbert Klein and Mario Trinchero and obtained, in addition to the clarinet diploma, a Bachelor of Music (Musicology) at the University of South Africa. He was associate principal clarinetist of the Symphony Orchestra of the South African Broadcasting Corporation and a tenor in the SABC Chamber Choir, and in 1994 he performed as a clarinetist and singer at Nelson Mandela's inauguration. Further studies took him to Thomas Friedli in Geneva, where in 1998 he was awarded a first prize and the soloist diploma at the Conservatoire de Musique. He is a multiple prize-winner of music competitions and won the Young Artist Award of the International Clarinet Society in 1995 and the first prize at the Swiss Concours National d’Exécution Musicale in 1997. Robert Pickup was associate principal clarinetist of the Brabants Orkest Eindhoven before being appointed principal clarinetist of the Zurich Opera Orchestra in 1999. As a guest, he has performed with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and Concentus Musicus Vienna, among others. Since 2020, Robert Pickup has been professor of clarinet at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

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Abstract

While the music of Jean Sibelius was still dismissed as kitsch in the German-speaking world, in America the Finnish composer was already something of a pop-cultural phenomenon during his lifetime: the Boston Symphony Orchestra presented all of the Sibelius symphonies as early as the 1932/33 season, and American critics spoke of an uncomplex music that appealed not only to the elite but also to the general public. Popular music in the best sense was also composed in the 20th century by Aaron Copland, whose Clarinet Concerto was written for the jazz musician Benny Goodman, and Leonard Bernstein, who combined styles such as waltz, samba and blues in his Divertimento for the 100th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Philharmonia Zürich performs the works by Bernstein and Copland (clarinet: Robert Pickup) together with the 2nd Symphony by Jean Sibelius, conducted by Yutaka Sado.

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