Organization

Admin

Semperoper Dresden

Conductor

François Leleux

Singer

Kristina Reiko Cooper

Cello

Kristín Anna Guðmundsdóttir

Soprano

Luzia Tietze

Alto

Kangyoon Shine Lee

Tenor

Tomasz Wija

Bass

Eliana Pliskin Jacobs

Narrator

Benjy Fox-Rosen

Sasha Lurje

Voice

Karsten Troyke

Orchestra

Dresdner Philharmonie

Mendelssohn's Scottish

Dresden

Germany

Semperoper

Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, op.56 ("Scottish") Mendelssohn

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Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, op. 56 ("Scottish")

Symphony No. 6 'Vessels of Light'

Cristina Pardo Ramírez

Approved

She is four when she starts composing. At 12, she writes her first opera. Our Composer in Residence Lera Auerbach began early to see her life and art as one. Yet music was and is only one part of her creative work. She is also known as a poet, visual artist and performer. Her Sixth Symphony also shows her commitment: this moving, large-scale symphonic work was inspired by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Vice Consul in Lithuania, who saved thousands of Jewish refugees during the Second World War, and is dedicated to him and all those who risked their lives to help Jewish people during the Holocaust.  Lera Auerbach was asked to write the work by the renowned Japanese-American-Israeli cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper.  Ms Cooper's husband's father, Irving Rosen, was the recipient of one of the thousands of visas Sugihara issued.
Commissioned by the International Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the American Society for Yad Vashem, the result is a sound world all its own that stirs and moves the listener on many levels.
Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony seems to be the complete opposite, speaking musically of untouched nature, of the barren and beautiful landscape of Scotland, which deeply impressed the young Mendelssohn. But here, too, there is a double bottom, so to speak: for Mendelssohn was inspired during a visit to Mary Stuart's castle. The Scottish queen had to flee her country and was later executed - she was suspected of high treason...

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