Mahler 10 (completion/arr Castelletti) in Tokyo (November 2021),
in the iconic Hakuju Hall, designed by Albert Abut Architecture.
NHK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Chief conductor: Paavo Jarvi
Mahler 10 on its ‘around the world…’ journey:
BERLIN - CARDIFF - CANTERBURY - CORK - DUBLIN - HANGZHOU - HELSINKI -
LIMERICK - LONDON - MUNICH - ROVANIEMI - TOKYO - VALLETTA
Mahler 10 goes to the Barbican
Performers
Brian Cox presenter
Dalia Stasevska conductor
Brian Cox: Music and the Cosmos
Join one of the world’s pre-eminent physicists for a mind-bending musical voyage through space and time, set to a soundtrack inspired by the great unknowns of the Universe.
Programme
Jean Sibelius, Symphony No 5 in E flat majorThird movement, arr. Iain Farrington
Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No 10 in F sharp major (Adagio), arr. Michelle Castelletti
HEILIGENSTADT
… another world inside
“Step inside an internal soundworld. Another world inside explores the multitudes of internal sounds, blank silences, distant noise, and the essence of isolation in an interdisciplinary work inspired by Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament, together with the ghost of his raging Grosse Fuge, creating a new "space"…” Michelle Castelletti
Inspiration: Ludwig van Beethoven and his Heiligenstadt Testament
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Heiligenstadt Testament, Ludwig van Beethoven, October 6, 1802: one of the most heartbreakingly poignant and personal, penned by a composer. Taking this as our fundamental inspiration, together with the ghost of Beethoven’s turbulent Grosse Fuge, and trying to get deep into the mind of a composer who is losing the one sense that should be more perfect than any others – his hearing – this interdisciplinary project reflects the essence of “isolation”, through sound, light, movement, internal emotion and word. What do we experience when we read this – perhaps even more particularly now, when we are all in “isolation”? Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the composer, we have explored different interpretations of isolation or solitude: Alone but not lonely; Alone within one’s thoughts; Alone and isolated; Alone and in despair; Cocooned within oneself; Alone in a crowd; Blank face; Deceived by hope; Another world inside; A journey to find oneself; Discovery? What does it evoke to you? Dr Michelle Castelletti
Filmed at: The Valletta Campus Theatre
The Valletta Campus Theatre forms part of the Old University - a late sixteenth century building, built to serve as a Jesuit College by the Knights of Malta. its turbulent history saw several changes, including a redesign of the Baroque façade of the university in 1647 by architect Franceso Buonamici. With the expulsion of the Jesuits from Malta in 1768, the order established a College and University, and, following a short suspension (1773-75), the university was re-inaugurated once more in 1779 by Grandmaster de Rohan. It now houses the VCT – a state-of-the-art black box theatre, which could not be more appropriate for our performance tonight.
Festivals Malta The Three Palaces Festival
in collaboration with Valletta Cultural Agency
Susanna Mälkki
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustav Mahler: Adagio sinfoniasta nro 10 (sov. Michelle Castelletti)
Jean Sibelius: Rakastava / Den älskande / The Lover
Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds B
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sinfonia nro 1 / Symfoni nr 1 / Symphony No. 1
Helsingin kaupunginorkesterin konsertti Musiikkitalosta.
Live broadcast from Musiikkitalo.
‘Proms in the Park’ style performance
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra 2019 season launch under the patronage of H.E. The President of Malta
23 September 2019, Valletta, Malta
dedicated to the memory of a very dear friend, Cathy Oakes
Mahler 10 becomes a ballet
UNDINE – EIN TRAUMBALLETT
von Karl Alfred Schreiner
auf die Sinfonie Nr. 10 von Gustav Mahler
in der Fassung für Kammerorchester von Michelle Castelletti
Mahler 10 BALLET [70’]
Five performances in Munich.
Choreographer: Karl Alfred Schreiner on the Symphony No. 10 by Gustav Mahler (unfinished), in the completed version for chamber orchestra by Michelle Castelletti
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich
World premiere on November 12, 2020
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musical direction: Michael Brandstätter
choreography: Karl Alfred Schreiner
stage: Heiko Pfützner
Costumes: Caroline Czaloun-Moore
light: Peter Hörtner
dramaturgy: Fedora Wesseler
Ballet of the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz
Orchestra of the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz
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Undine, Rusalka, Melusine, the little mermaid - the motif of the (impossible) connection between humans and aquatic beings has always been fascinating. No wonder, because whether mermaid or water nymph - she embodies one of the strongest driving forces of human nature: the longing for the unattainable. On the one hand, this longing leads the mermaid to shed her fishtail and live among people in order to gain a soul. At the same time, with the animal-uncanny trait, it also loses the fascination that makes it so desirable in the perception of people - although or precisely because people know for their part that life under water would be impossible for them.
Using the Undine material, Karl Alfred Schreiner takes up the questions that have continued to affect composers of the 19th and 20th centuries from Romanticism to Disney's »Ariel, the Mermaid«: the opposing desire to be different and yet belong to it, as well as the apparently paradoxical connection of emotional longing with erotic desire or the human dream of another world.
On October 27th the premiere fever for “Undine - A Dream Ballet” will take place, where you will get exciting insights into the production.