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Mon, Feb. 03, 2025, 8.00 pm | Elbphilharmonie, Grand Hall

6th Philharmonic Concert

Kent Nagano

Jörg Widmann: “Cantata in tempore belli” for alto, speaking voice, choir, organ and orchestra - based on texts by Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich von Logau, Matthias Claudius, Wolfgang Borchert and from the Bible - world premiere

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa C minor KV 427 “Great Mass in C minor” for soloists, choir and orchestra

Kent Nagano
Alto (Widmann): Ida Aldrian
Soprano I (Mozart): Katharina Konradi
Soprano II (Mozart): Ida Aldrian
Tenor (Mozart): Seungwoo Simon Yang
Bass (Mozart): Jóhann Kristinsson
Chor der Liatoshynski Capella, Kyiv, Ukraine
Choir rehearsal: Bogdan Plish
Speaker (Widmann): Jens Harzer
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Introduction 60 minutes before the start of the event

In the 6th Philharmonic Concert, a world premiere reflecting our times is on the program at short notice. Jörg Widmann, who has been in close artistic contact with Kent Nagano, particularly since the great success of his ARCHE for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie, has recently written a decidedly peaceful work in view of the global wars: “Cantata in tempore belli”. Jens Harzer takes on the role of narrator.
“After my oratorio ARCHE was premiered for Kent Nagano and the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra during the opening week of the Elbphilharmonie in 2017, Kent Nagano and I thought it would be a nice idea to write another work for his last Hamburg season,” says Jörg Widmann. “I decided to compose a cantata. In view of the global political situation, it is impossible for me to write a purely representative, 'beautiful' piece. The horrific wars of our time and the immeasurable suffering of so many people leave me no choice but to focus on the war itself and give the piece the title 'Cantata in tempore belli'. In times when there are calls in our country to become 'warlike' again, it is all the more important for me to compose a flaming appeal for peace. Alongside biblical texts and fragments of poetry by Hölderlin, Logau and Matthias Claudius, the pacifist appeal 'Say No!' by the Hamburg composer Wolfgang Borchert, who died far too young, takes center stage. May this cantata give comfort and call for peace.”
Newly married, Mozart wrote his Mass in C minor in gratitude for the recovery of his wife, who was heard in the soprano role at the premiere in Salzburg. Contemporaries regarded the music as over-rich and operatic - today it is celebrated as the pinnacle of Mozart's church music oeuvre.
The originally planned Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert is omitted.

Venue: Elbphilharmonie, Grand Hall, Platz der Deutschen Einheit 4, 20457 Hamburg
Prices: € 92,00 / 73,00 / 57,00 / 41,00 / 16,00

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