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Sun, Sep. 29, 2024, 11.00 am | Elbphilharmonie, Grand Hall

1st Philharmonic Concert

Kent Nagano

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor WAB 109

György Ligeti: "Lux Aeterna" for mixed choir a cappella

Kent Nagano
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Vokalensemble LauschWerk
Choir rehearsal: Martin Steidler

Introduction 60 minutes before the start of the event

The 2024/25 season, the last with General Music Director Kent Nagano, starts with Anton Bruckner's Ninth - one of the many ninth and final symphonies in music history. The extent to which the old believer at the end of the 19th century looked ahead to the next is still impressive and deeply moving. A symphony for eternity. One that will go on forever.
The concert ends without instruments, but with the sound of infinity. In György Ligeti's groundbreaking "Lux Aeterna" from 1966, the LauschWerk choir sings with a maximum of polyphony: Soprano, alto, tenor and bass divide into no fewer than 16 voices to capture the "eternal light" in sound. "As a self-contained composition, 'Lux aeterna' naturally has a beginning and an end," said the Hungarian composer, who later taught at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama for many years, describing his work. "And although the entire habitus of the music is static, gradual changes do take place. The idea of infinity is evoked, the impression is created that the music was already there when we did not yet hear it and will always continue, even if we no longer hear it."

Venue: Elbphilharmonie, Grand Hall, Platz der Deutschen Einheit 4, 20457 Hamburg
Prices: € 92,00 / 73,00 / 57,00 / 41,00 / 16,00

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