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Sugiyama Philharmonic Orchestra and Sugiyama Girls School Orchestra
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"Nature is roaring" - this is how Gustav Mahler described his Seventh Symphony after completing it in his composing cottage on Lake Wörthersee in Carinthia. In conjunction with Yasushi Akutagawa's ‘Trinità Sinfonica’, this is a charity concert in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein that is not to be missed.
A wonderful evening in the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein with music for a good cause: the musicians performing that evening are supporting a worthy cause, with their concert raising funds for the Caritas Hospice and the neighbourhood centres run by the Vienna Hilfswerk charity.
Gustav Mahler spent inspiring summer months at Lake Wörthersee, and he found his music at the lake, rowing or walking to his composing cottage. No wonder we encounter these sounds of nature in his 7th Symphony: herd bells, horn calls, from delicate guitar and mandolin sounds to completely unrestrained brass fanfares greeting the dawn. Here, Gustav Mahler breaks the boundaries of the audible and ignites a firework display of timbres.
The Trinitá Sinfonica is probably Yasushi Akutagawa's best-known work. Composed in 1949, it quickly became a fixture in Japanese orchestra programmes. The three-movement work transports us to a wonderful and fascinating world of sound in which one would gladly lose oneself.
Program and cast
Sugiyama Philharmonic Orchestra
Sugiyama-jyogakuen Orchestra
Nobuhiro Nakamura, Conductor
Program
Yasushi Akutagawa
Trinita Sinfonica
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 7 in E minor
Musikverein Golden Hall
This building is located on Dumbastraße/Bösendorferstraße behind the Hotel Imperial near the Ringstraße boulevard and the Wien River, between Bösendorferstraße and Karlsplatz. However, since Bösendorferstraße is a relatively small street, the building is better known as being between Karlsplatz and Kärntner Ring (part of Ringstraße loop). It was erected as the new concert hall run by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, on a piece of land provided by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1863. The plans were designed by Danish architect Theophil Hansen in the Neoclassical style of an ancient Greek temple, including a concert hall as well as a smaller chamber music hall. The building was inaugurated on 6 January, 1870. A major donor was Nikolaus Dumba whose name the Austrian government gave to one of the streets surrounding the Musikverein.
Great Hall - Golden Hall
“As high as any expectations could be, they would still be exceeded by the first impression of the hall which displays an architectural beauty and a stylish splendour making it the only one of its kind.” This was the reaction of the press to the opening of the new Musikverein building and the first concert in the Großer Musikvereinssaal on 6 January 1870.
The impression must have been overwhelming – so overwhelming that Vienna’s leading critic, Eduard Hanslick, irritatingly brought up the question of whether this Großer Musikvereinssaal “was not too sparkling and magnificent for a concert hall”. “From all sides spring gold and colours.”
Brahms Hall
"In order not to promise too much it can be said that it has been made into the most beautiful, most magnificent, perfect example of a chamber concert hall that any of us knows in the world.” This was the reaction of a Vienna daily newspaper in October 1993 as the Brahms-Saal was presented to the public after extensive renovation work.
The surprise was perfect. It was a completely new hall. In contrast to the Grosse Musikvereinssaal, the Brahms-Saal had changed its appearance quite considerably over the years. When and how it acquired that slightly melancholy duskiness that was known to music lovers before 1993 cannot be precisely documented.
Glass Hall
As a venue for events from concerts to luxury banquets, the Glass Hall / Magna Auditorium is not only the largest of the Musikverein's 4 new halls but also the most flexible in terms of usage.
Hub podiums enable the smooth transformation of the concert hall into a conference centre, the cinema into a ballroom, or the stage into a catwalk. State-of-the-art equipment for sound, lighting, video and widescreen digital projection provide the ideal conditions for half-scenic productions.
The Glass Hall / Magna Auditorium was designed by the Viennese architect Wilhelm Holzbauer. With a height of 8 metres, the hall (including the gallery) can play host to up to 380 visitors.
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