Rihm / Brahms
Wolfgang Rihm
Aria/Ariadne «Szenarie» for soprano and chamber orchestra after a text by Friedrich Nietzsche
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90
Introduction 45 min before the performance.
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Rihm / Brahms
Abstract
Rihm / Brahms
«Setting Nietzsche to music is like singing into a sound context, letting voice into already existing singing», says the composer Wolfgang Rihm, whose Aria/Ariadne will be conducted by Gianandrea Noseda in the 2nd Philharmonic Concert. For this «Scenarie» for soprano and chamber orchestra, composed in 2001, Rihm drew on the «Lament of Ariadne» from Friedrich Nietzsche's Dionysus Dithyrambs. Nietzsche's poetic work inspired him again and again - from individual songs to a Dionysus opera - and stimulated him in a special way to question the relationship between text and music. Mojca Erdmann, who also sang Ariadne in the Salzburg premiere of Rihm's Dionysus opera in 2010, takes on the soprano part in this concert.
Johannes Brahms' Third Symphony was written in Wiesbaden in the summer months of 1883 and premiered to great acclaim in Vienna the following December. Among the work's many admirers was the composer Antonín Dvořák, who wrote to his publisher: «It is pure love, and it makes your heart soar».
