CONCERT INFO

MEMBERS OF THE BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
Noah Bendix-Balgley violin
Hande Küden violin
Diyang Mei viola
Knut Weber cello
IESTYN DAVIES countertenor

CONCERT PROGRAMME

• Claudio Monteverdi
  Aria from l'Orfeo, Act 3 ‘Possente spirto’
• Franz Schubert
  String Quartet in C minor, D. 703
• Donghoon Shin / poems: Rainer Maria Rilke
  Sonnets to Orpheus*
• Christoph Willibald Gluck
  Excerpts from the opera Orpheus and Euridice
• Samuel Barber/ poem: Matthew Arnold
  Dover Beach, Op. 3
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
  String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13

* World premiere

* Co-commissioned by the Istanbul Music Festival, Wigmore Hall and Chamber Music Northwest

Duration: 105’ (w/ interval)

Centred on the myth of Orpheus, this poetic programme brings together members of the Berlin Philharmonic and countertenor Iestyn Davies in a journey spanning four centuries. From Monteverdi’s operatic visions to a newly commissioned work by Donghoon Shin inspired by Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, and from Barber’s Dover Beach to Mendelssohn’s impassioned String Quartet Op. 13, the concert explores the themes of love, loss and transformation across time.