FULL Chiaroscuro Concert Barbara Hannigan Ludwigsburg 2021
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Chiaroscuro Concert Barbara Hannigan
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Germany
- Recorded: July 4, 2021
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Barbara Hannigan, Aphrodite Patoulidou, Coline Dutilleul, Charles Sy, Douglas Williams
- Conductor: Barbara Hannigan
- Orchestra: Orchester der Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele
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Information about the Recording
- Published by: ARTE
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: ARTE FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
As the highlight of her residency at the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival 2021, the conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan gives a concert entitled Chiaroscuro: The contrast between light and dark determines the choice of music. “Light” works by Stravinsky, Haydn and Gershwin meet “dark” works by Schönberg and Ives.
At the climax of her week-long residency, Barbara Hannigan, together with the festival orchestra, devotes herself entirely to the play of light and shadow. Hannigan, who is both a soprano and a conductor, borrows this source of inspiration from a style of baroque painting. In the program of the same name, the high-contrast »chiaroscuro« is translated into two consecutive concerts. “Bright Lights” offers optimistic sounds and memorable melodies – be it with Igor Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella”, Joseph Haydn’s “Symphony No. 90” or George Gershwin’s suite from “Girl Crazy”, in which Barbara Hannigan is, so to speak, doubles as the singing conductor.
In contrast, the second part, “The Dark Side”, with Arnold Schönberg’s “Transfigured Night” and Claude Vivier’s “Lonely Child” brings out the beauty of melancholy. The “everlasting question about existence” opens the evening: “The Unanswered Question” by Charles Ives reveals the impossibility of an answer and leaves the audience musically in a state of limbo.
Program:
Bright Lights
IGOR STRAWINSKY – Pulcinella
JOSEPH HAYDN – Sinfonie Nr. 90 in C-Dur, Hob. I:90
GEORGE GERSHWIN – Girl Crazy – Suite arrangiert von BILL ELLIOTT
The Dark Side
CHARLES IVES – The Unanswered Question
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG – Verklärte Nacht für Streichorchester, op. 4
CLAUDE VIVIER – Lonely Child für Sopran und Orchester