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BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2017
FOUNDATIONS
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra through 40 years
40 , Loud and Proud m
DATE / TIME Saturday 27 May at 18:00
DURATION 1:30 m
LOGEN
TICKETS ( PER CONCERT ) Standard : 350 Under 30 : 150 BT Fordel : 265
Festival Card : 30 % discount
In collaboration with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra celebrates its fortieth anniversary during the Bergen International Festival with an entire evening of no fewer than three concerts . Throughout the last four decades the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra has nurtured the classical string sound to the core , all the time experimenting with forms of expression and ideals of tone . On this occasion in Logen they take it yet one step further . The evening compasses everything from the hardcore baroque to the contemporary , the sentimentally romantic to the intellectually systematic and the deadly serious to the sheerest madness . Happy Anniversary !
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Terje Tønnesen artistic director
Classical gems revitalised .
The evening begins with this concert in classical mood , with new life injected into what we thought we knew so well : the orchestra ’ s version of the Holberg Suite , performed from memory . Then cellist Kian Soltani from the Crescendo programme takes centre stage in Haydn ’ s Cello Concerto no . 1 – the orchestra is known for incorporating young new talents .
In contrast to the light , the classical format closes with Shostakovich ’ s string symphony – a tsunami of string sounds heading for the abyss , but eventually lifted up by the hope beneath .
Kian Soltani cello
EDVARD GRIEG ( 1843 – 1907 ) Holberg Suite , op . 40 JOSEPH HAYDN ( 1732 – 1809 ) Cello concert no . 1 in C major , H VIIb : 1 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH ( 1906 – 1975 ) Chamber symphony in C minor , op . 110a ( arr . for string orchestra by Rudolf Barshai )
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