2. Symphony concert - GÖTTLICH

Arnold Schönberg A Survivor from Warsaw for narrator, male choir and orchestra op. 46
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 125

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Ode to Joy, chosen by the EU as the European anthem, cannot remain unreflected at a time when war is once again raging in Europe. With the resounding memorial A Survivor from Warsaw by Schönberg, whose 150th birthday the music world will be celebrating in 2024, the TSOI recalls the destruction of everything human in the Second World War before the symphony. The voice of a survivor from Warsaw becomes a document of the Holocaust, the systematic extermination of millions of people in Europe. In Schönberg's composition, "hearing the truly horrific opens the way to understanding how fraternity, more than freedom or equality, should have been so that this horror would not have happened", stated conductor Michael Gielen when he performed Schönberg and Beethoven's work together almost 50 years ago. So in the finale, the spark of the gods' hope for fraternity can finally be transferred back to a Europe once again shaken by war, when a Tyrolean choral alliance and the soloist quartet consisting of the Landestheater audience favorites Camilla Lehmeier and Johannes Maria Wimmer and the exquisite guests Erica Eloff from the Linzer Musiktheater and David Fischer from the Deutsche Oper am Rhein sing "more joyful tones". Gabriel Venzago, the "maestro of tomorrow" according to the German Music Council, will also conduct the "Ninth" in memory of its premiere in Vienna exactly 200 years ago in 1824.