Abokonzert IV - HIMMLISCHE NATUR
- Location:
- Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle Beethoven-Saal, Berliner Platz 1, 70174 Stuttgart
Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747)
Les Éléments
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Klopstock's Morgengesang am Schöpfungsfest Wq 239
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Die Tageszeiten TVWV 20:39
Elisabeth Breuer Soprano 1
Natasha Schnur Soprano 2
Ulrike Malotta Alto
Julian Habermann Tenor
Johannes Kammler Bass
Gaechinger Cantorey
Hans-Christoph Rademann Conductor
Return to Nature Three innovative composers, three visions of the creation of the world, three ingenious late works make up this program.
Man's relationship with nature and the notion of a divine force that triggers it were a recurring theme in 18th century literature.
Music was also concerned with this. Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Creation is probably the best-known example, but other composers before him also lent the sensual and spiritual dimension of nature their individual musical language, e.g. Jean-Féry Rebel, a pupil of Lully and court musician to the French king.
His symphony Les Éléments (1738) is a ballet suite imbued with tone painting. Klopstock's Morgengesang (1783) by C. P. E. Bach is characterized by "Empfindsamkeit" and was considered one of the masterpieces of German music for two decades.
Finally, Telemann leads us from morning to night through the pictorial and atmospheric cantata cycle Die Tageszeiten.