It's like a detective story without a murder: How might a piece of music have sounded 200 years ago, what did the orchestra sound like then, and what techniques did musicians use to draw their bows and produce sounds? These are vital questions for the "detective” in this case, who strives to ensure that a work is performed as its composer conceived it down to the tiniest detail, just as he and his audience might have heard it in his time. It is this almost impossible task that John Eliot G...ardiner, one of the most exciting conducting personalities of our times, undertook when - beginning with the Renaissance and Baroque at the end of the 1970s - he set about rediscovering the various periods of music history and their well known masterpieces.
Gardiner does not perform, but reinterprets, reconstructing and rewriting a story on the basis of researched evidence and documents. We can only listen and wonder how little we really knew Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 or the Leonore Overture No. 2. Then there is Berlioz, a composer now not usually included among the "three Bs,” whose name - rather than that of Brahms - nevertheless originally featured alongside Bach and Beethoven. One of today's leading conductors and experts on the music of the French composer, Gardiner founded the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in 1989, mainly to perform the works of Beethoven and Berlioz on period instruments.
Soloist for the performance of the song cycle Les nuits d'été, which was composed in 1841 and arranged for orchestra some 15 years later, is Ann Hallenberg. The Swedish mezzo-soprano performed as soloist at a concert of the ensembles conducted by Gardiner at the Nobel Prize-giving ceremony in December 2008.
Presented by: Palace of Arts
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