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Marin Alsop

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Georg Zlabinger

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Bass-baritone

Gerald Finley

Bluebeard

Soprano

Ausrine Stundyte

Judith

Spoken

Karin Tufvesson-Hjörne

Prologue of the Bard

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Göteborgs Symfoniker

ungarsk

Cristina Pardo Ramírez

A kékszakállú herceg vára -  (Bluebeard's Castle)

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Bluebeard's Castle

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Silent

Marin Alsop was the first woman to become Chief Conductor of a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony. She puts a lot of thought behind every program she conducts. A good program should have a message, maybe even a sense moral, but at the same time offer variety for the ear.

This concert Alsop opens with James MacMillan’s The Confession of Isobel Gowdie from 1990. A piece that without words, only with the sounds of the orchestra, tells of the 17th century mass hysteria surrounding the witch trials, and especially the events of 1662 in the Scottish town of Nairn. “A Prayer for a Murdered Woman,” MacMillan sums up his work. Alsop follows this up with another story about men’s cruelty to women: Bartók’s one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle.

At the heart of the song poem The Confession of Isobel Gowdie stands in the 17th century Isobel Gowdie accused and convicted of witchcraft. A young woman that we are aware of today thanks to her carefully archived interrogation confessions. MacMillan’s music depicts her imagined trial and execution.

Béla Bartók’s one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle is also narrative in its character, but even more the work gives voice to man’s inner psychological landscape. The premise is stripped down: after breaking away from a previously secure existence, Judith seeks out the object of her love, a man named Bluebeard. His home, a darkened castle, towers behind them. Should she flee or accompany him in and see what is hidden in the castle’s seven sealing rooms? Diving into this spiritual labyrinth in all its musical complexity is an experience that is difficult to shake off.

Conductor Marin Alsop, who believes “music can change lives”, is hailed for her trailblazing and inspiring programmes. Alsop studied at Yale and New York’s Juilliard School of Music, where she obtained a Master’s of Music in Violin. Afterwards, she went on to train as a conductor under legends like Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa and Gustav Meier. In 1981, she set up the string ensemble String Fever. Eight years later, she won the Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student conductors. Besides leading the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Alsop has also been Chief Conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2019.

English

Bluebeard's Castle by Bartók, Fra (2022/2022), Instrueret af Georg Zlabinger,, Dirigent Marin Alsop

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