Feature film by Clara Pons
Performance in a live concert
Music: Gustav Mahler / songs from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn"
With Dietrich Henschel, Vera Streicher, Sébastian Dutrieux, Elias Fret
Wunderhorn
Concept
IN THE BEGINNING WAS PARADISE.
THEN CAME THE APPLE.
THEN IT GOT COLD
SO LOVE COULD BE INVENTED.
THEN CAME THE WAR
THAT TAKES LOVE FROM PEOPLE
AND THE LOVE OF THE PEOPLE,
AND SENDS THEM BACK TO PARADISE.
GUSTAV MAHLER / SONGS FROM "DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN"
15 SONGS IN ORIGINAL
ORCHESTRA RECORDING 9 SONGS ORCHESTRATED BY DETLEV GLANERT
WUNDERHORN combines a live performance of all the songs from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" by Gustav Mahler with the projection of a feature film. The collection of folk songs Des Knaben Wunderhorn, compiled by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, was a source of inspiration for Mahler throughout his creative life. His Wunderhorn settings, both as independent songs and standing in the context of the symphonies, possess an incomparable expressive power thanks to their catchy, sometimes exotic melodies. In Mahler's music, the prophetic swan song to an epoch, the world of yesterday resounds: idyllic, naïve and dreamy, but also satirical, unsparing and cruel. With WUNDERHORN, Clara Pons tells a story of man, love and war by translating Mahler's humanism and melancholy into images.
Cast
Dietrich Henschel
Baritone Dietrich Henschel is a towering figure, physically, intellectually, musically, and theatrically. His prowess as an interpreter, by which I mean precisely his ability to get below the surface of a song and right into its soul, is extraordinary. The Herald Scotland
Technical
Orchesterbesetzung
3 Fl/Picc
3 Ob/EH
3 Kl/Basskl
3 Fg/Kontrafg
4 Hr
3 Tr
1 Pos
1 Tuba
Pk
Perc
Harfe
Str
Orchesterstärken wären also wie folgt denkbar:
24 Soloinstrumente plus variable Streicherbesetzungen:
12/10/8/6/4 - Gesamtstärke 64 (maximum)
„normale“ Orchesterstärke; für manche der Lieder muss die Streicherbesetzung reduziert werden
10/8/6/4/3 - Gesamtstärke 55
für große Säle ausreichend voluminöse Kammerorchester-Besetzung
6/5/4/2/1 - Gesamtstärke 42
kleinste Orchesterbesetzung der Original-Orchestrierung
Sehr transparent, sehr fordernd für das Orchester.