The concert will take place next Thursday (May 7) in the Chamber Hall
The Auditorio de Tenerife’s Chamber Music Cycle will host the Metamorfosis concert this Thursday (May 7) at 7.30 p.m., performed by the Wien Dresden Ensemble. This group, consisting of musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, will present a programme of works by Arnold Schönberg and Richard Strauss in the Chamber Hall.
The Vienna Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle Dresden are among the world’s most important, renowned, and long-standing orchestras. These institutions and their members share a long history of musical exchange. Over the years, this has included numerous joint projects, reciprocal visits, and shared traditions. These qualities have brought the music of the two cities together, making them nearly inseparable.
The musicians of these ensembles share the same musical baggage and wish to live intensely, delighting audiences with performances given at the highest level in smaller ensembles than their respective orchestras will allow. In this regard, their goal is to perform before a select audience that will appreciate an intimate, special, and unique musical atmosphere.
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) Op. 4, is among the composer’s first masterpieces to revolutionise the musical panorama of the early 20th century. He composed the work in the autumn of 1899 while visiting his composition teacher, Alexander von Zemlinsky, in the Lower Austrian village of Payerbach. As a work of programme music, it is based on Richard Dehmel’s poem “Verklärte Nacht”, published in 1896 in the collection “Weib und Welt”, although Schönberg expressly requested the poem’s omission from concert programmes.
Metamorphosen: Study for 23 Solo Strings-on this occasion, arranged for seven musicians by Rudolf Leopold, based on composer Richard Strauss’s original sketches-was created by Strauss in 1945 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and is his last orchestral work. Premiering in Zurich, it was dedicated to the famous arts patron Paul Sacher. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, amid human and cultural devastation, Strauss considered his composition the culmination of his career and a farewell to a world in ruins. His despondency is reflected at several levels in this profound and deeply intimate work.
The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 and €5 for audiences under 30 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium’s box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Check the special discounts for students, unemployed people and large families, among others.