The Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra plays works by Rautavaara, Strauss and Tchaikovsky.
Conductor: Daniel Geiss Einojuhani Rautavaara: "A Requiem in Our Time" op. 3 for brass and percussion Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen for 23 solo stringsPeter Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B minor op. 74 "Pathétique
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Profound reflections define this concert program. The Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara entitled his 1953 work "Requiem in our Time". It refers to parts of the Latin Mass for the Dead and explores the "boundary between faith and doubt", according to Rautavaara.Richard Strauss composed his "Metamorphoses" in 1944/45 for the Swiss conductor and patron Paul Sacher. He noted "Mourning for Munich" in his sketchbook, as his places of work, the opera houses in Munich, Dresden and Vienna, lay in ruins. Strauss wistfully remembers his "whole past life". In this work, he draws meaningfully on the beginning of Beethoven's funeral march from the "Eroica".Peter Tchaikovsky's last symphony is heard at the end of the concert: "Only music that flows from the depths of an artist's soul moved by inspiration can move, shake and stimulate."
