PROGRAMME
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture no. 3
MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE: Håkan. Trumpet Concerto no. 2 (German Premiere)
EDGAR VARÈSE: Intégrales
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony no. 4 in B-flat major op. 60
- Conductor Daniel Harding
- Trumpet Håkan Hardenberger
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The Mahler Chamber Orchestra joins forces with Conductor Laureate Daniel Harding and Håkan Hardenberger in a programme pairing Ludwig van Beethoven with works by Edgar Varèse and Mark-Anthony Turnage. The trumpet concerto Håkan, which Turnage wrote for Håkan Hardenberger, receives its German premiere in this concert.
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Håkan is the second collaboration between the British composer and the Swedish trumpet player, following their musical “psychological study” From the Wreckage in 2004. The programme opens with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Leonore Overture no. 3. Edgar Varèse’s Intégrales, composed for small orchestra and 17 percussion instruments, explores a new world of sound, while the final work of the evening, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony no. 4, returns to the MCO’s core repertoire: the orchestra performed it most recently in May 2015, during its Beethoven cycle with Daniele Gatti.
The city of Cologne has been closely linked to the Mahler Chamber Orchestra since its early years, and as part of its former North Rhine-Westphalia residency and the annual MCO Academy. The MCO’s most recent concert at the Kölner Philharmonie was a semi-staged concert performance of George Benjamin’s masterpiece, Written on Skin, in March 2016.
This concert brings together two artists who have each been the focus of the Kölner Philharmonie’s concert series: to celebrate Daniel Harding’s birthday, the 2015/16 season features concerts with him at the podium, while this performance concludes a series of three concerts focusing on Håkan Hardenberger.
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