LANDSHAMER, ONOFRI UND DAS MKO

Scenes and sensations, in the countryside, in the city: at the end of its ‘Nachtwache’ season in the Prinzregententheater, the MKO celebrates the pleasure of concrete nocturnal soundscapes. Per Nørgård’s ‘Pastorale’, composed in the 1980s for the Oscar-winning film ‘Babette’s Feast’, celebrates the pull of slowness. At the centre of the film is an evening feast in a remote Nordic village. Two hundred years earlier, Luigi Boccherini captured the atmosphere in the streets of Madrid at night, the hustle and bustle between the evening bells and curfew, in a lively and imaginative quintet. Schubert’s songs play out romantic, sometimes gloomy scenes against a nocturnal backdrop. For four orchestrated songs, including the famous ‘Erlkönig’, the celebrated soprano Christina Landshamer joins the MKO for the first time. Finally, Beethoven’s daylit ‘Pastorale’ pays homage to rural life and the power of nature as an ‘Ode to Creation’.