Thu, 4 July – Opening Festspielhaus, 7pm
Sun, 7 July Festspielhaus, 6pm
WAGNER, FRANUI et al
I BEETHOVEN PLUS
Every day of every year brings plenty of reasons for anniversaries. Where to start celebrating and where to stop? In 2013 we will perform Verdi in a house that has the ideal acoustics for the composer’s operas. And what a nice coincidence that the world is also celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of Verdi’s birth in 2013! That Wagner, who too was born in 1813, will not be heard in Erl this summer is obviously unthinkable. The Festival Orchestra and the Musicbanda Franui (which happens to celebrate it’s 20th anniversary in 2013) will meet at the opening of the Tyrolean Festival Erl 2013 to mix an exciting Wagner cocktail to make sure that the “other” jubilarian, whom the Tyrolean Festival Erl owes so much, will not be shortchanged. Two sound worlds will unite in line with the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1 in C major, op. 21
6pm
Orchestra of the Tyrolean Festival Erl Conductor Gustav Kuhn Musicbanda Franui Tuba Andreas Fuetsch Clarinet, Bass Clarinet Johannes Eder Saxophone, Clarinet Romed Hopfgartner Contrabass, Accordion Markus Kraler Harp, Zither, Voice Angelika Rainer Dulcimer, Guitar, Voice Bettina Rainer Trumpet, Cornet, Voice Markus Rainer Trumpet, Cornet, Voice, Musical Director Andreas Schett Valve Trombone, Voice Martin Senfter Violin Nikolai Tunkowitsch
20
{Interval} 7pm
FRANCESCO LIBETTA Imaginary Paraphrases on “The Saracen” by Richard Wagner (Premiere) Work commissioned by the Tyrolean Festival Erl 2013 ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG Recitals, op. 2 ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY From Songs, op. 6 {Interval} 8pm
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55 “Eroica”
The first chord of Beethoven’s 1st Symphony is pure revolution. How little sympathy Beethoven had left for the revolution can be seen in his rededication of the 3rd Symphony. However, the Symphony No. 1 marks the beginning of Beethoven’s compositional revolution, which was deliberately suspended in the 2nd Symphony to create a contrast, and resurfaces full force in the 3rd. With the middle part the “Beethoven Plus” concert series is re-starting a double tradition. Firstly, hundred years ago a symphonic concert was unthinkable without vocal recitals or chamber music. ➝
21