Concert Beethoven. Symphony No 9 World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera - Mariinsky II (New Theatre)
Schedule for Beethoven. Symphony No 9 2022
Mezzo soprano: Zlata Bulycheva Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko Tenor: Dmitry Voropaev Soprano: Irina Vasilieva Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven Bass: Mikhail Kit Artistic Director: Vladimir Begletsov
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven. Symphony No
9
Programme: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No 9
Soloists: Irina Vasilieva (soprano) Zlata Bulycheva
(mezzo-soprano) Dmitry Voropaev (tenor) Mikhail Kit (bass)
Smolny Cathedral Chamber Chorus Artistic Director: Vladimir Begletsov
Mariinsky Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra Children’s Chorus
Master: Dmitry Ralko Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko
Conductor: Pavel Smelkov
And through the peace
of worldly space, The ninth wave washed to the very stars O Thought,
reveal yourself! Word, become music, Strike to the hearts of men, let the
world rejoice! Nikolai Zabolotsky. Beethoven
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony ranks alongside such great works of art as Homer’s
poems, Dante’s La divina commedia, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Goethe’s Faust and
Bach’s High Mass... It expressed the aims of its age in an utterly perfect
manner, and at the same time it gave a voice to human ideals to which we remain
faithful to this very day. It concluded Beethoven the symphonist’s artistic path
and it also paved the way for the future. By including poetic verse in the
symphony, Beethoven took an incredibly innovative step which initially staggered
his contemporaries. For the composer himself, the writing of the Ninth Symphony
was the result of many years’ work in an attempt to find a musical embodiment
for Schiller’s Ode an die Freude. For the first time, Beethoven took a text
in order to express the philosophical concept of a symphony. But the most
important thing, even starting with Beethoven himself, is that the symphony – as
subtly expressed by German music historian Paul Bekker – performs the role of a
“secular mass” that brings concert hall audiences together in the same way that
a Sunday mass brings parishioners together at church. And it is not by chance
that Beethoven’s brilliant rendering of Schiller’s Ode an die Freude is the
official anthem of the European Union, a united Europe. It is not by chance that
it is performed everywhere as an apotheosis of freedom and fraternity of all
mankind. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was first performed on 7 May 1824 in
Vienna under the baton of the composer. Iosif Raiskin
Schedule for Beethoven. Symphony No 9 2022
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