Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Festival

• Classical Music

»I feel air from other planets« – so begins a poem by Stefan George, the poet who once stood for such an admired departure into modernity that a composer like Arnold Schönberg set some of his poems to music early on. Schönberg and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach were both avant-gardists in the best sense of the word. Both shared an emotional, technical, but also idealistic connection to the traditions from which they came. And both sought the development of art and artistic expression as a reflection of their time, developing a new musical language in the process. Schönberg (born in 1874) turned towards expressionism and later towards atonality, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (born in 1714) towards an enlightened understanding of music and as a pioneer and trailblazer for the music of Viennese Classicism. And as Arnold Schönberg and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach are both celebrating milestone birthdays this year, the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Choir Hamburg congratulates them with this concert.

PERFORMERS

Mitglieder des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg ensemble

Elise van Es soprano

Hansjörg Albrecht harpsichord, piano

PROGRAM

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sinfonie für Streicher und Basso continuo A-Dur Wq 182/4 »Hamburger Sinfonie Nr. 4«

Arnold Schönberg
15 Gedichte aus »Das Buch der hängenden Gärten« nach Stefan George op. 15

- Interval -

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sinfonie für Streicher und Basso continuo h-Moll Wq 182/5 »Hamburger Sinfonie Nr. 5«

Arnold Schönberg
Verklärte Nacht