7 pm: Pre-Concert Talk with Dieter Rexroth at the Werner-Otto-Saal
Free admission for ticket holders at 6:45 pm
Auckland Youth Orchestra
ALEXANDER COWDELL
“Persephone” (World Premiere)
ANTHONY RITCHIE
“Cartoon” Fantasy for Oboe and Orchestra (2017, German Premiere)
AARON COPLAND
“Appalachian Spring” (1945)
JEAN SIBELIUS
“Finlandia” Op. 26 (1900)
PROGRAMME
For ambitious youth orchestras, no journey is too far to join the Young Euro Classic roster: from the other end of the globe, the musicians of the Auckland Youth Orchestra travel to Berlin for their concert – and this is their second voyage of this kind, after their debut in 2011. The orchestra members are all students at the University of Auckland, located at the northern end of New Zealand. In keeping with the festival tradition, the Auckland Youth Orchestra performs composers of its homeland, including a brand-new work by Alexander Cowdell and a German premiere by the most successful composer of New Zealand, Anthony Ritchie. The rest of their programme demonstrates that the musicians from Auckland have a broad musical horizon: the second part of their concert features the famous tone poem Finlandia by the Jean Sibelius and the atmospheric Appalachian Spring by the American composer Aaron Copland. A more entertaining musical journey around the world is hard to imagine!
Broadcast
This concert is recorded by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and broadcasted nationwide – via FM, DAB +, Kabel, online and app. The date of the broadcast is August 21, 2018, 20:03-22:00.
