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BE RGE N INTE RN AT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2019
FOU N DAT I ON S
Closing Concert
m
GRIEGH A LLE N
GRIEG SA L E N
with Bergen Philharmonic
Orchestra
DAT E/ T I M E
Wednesday 05 June
at 18:00
D U RAT IO N
2:15
including interval
AD D I T I O N A L
IN FO RM ATI O N
Introduction
(in Norwegian)
by Gunnar Danbolt
at 17:15 in the
Grieghallen foyer.
T IC KET
Standard:
250/500/650
Senior:
225/450/585
Under 30: 190
FiB Fordel:
200/400/520
The 2019 Festival closes with
Mahler’s song-symphony and Chin’s
playful piano concerto.
Under the baton of principal conductor Ed-
ward Gardner the Bergen Philharmonic Or-
chestra closes the 2019 Bergen International
Festival with Festival Composer Unsuk Chin's
Piano Concerto. The soloist is the Korean pia-
nist Sunwook Kim, who has made a recording
of the complex work with the Seoul Symphony
Orchestra.
‘I particularly wanted to emphasise the vitality
and the kinetic and virtuoso aspects – the play-
ful side – of the piano,’ the composer explains.
The Piano Concerto is known for giving every
single instrument in the orchestra an impor-
tant role, and echoes the influence of Chin's
teacher, György Ligeti.
After the interval comes Mahler's Das Lied von
der Erde (the Song of the Earth), a symphony
for orchestra and two singers. It has been des-
cribed as the composer's best and most-loved
work. The song-symphony treats the subjects
of longing, love and the inexorable certainty
of human transience. Along with the Bergen
Philharmonic Orchestra two world-class solo-
ists – mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova and
tenor Toby Spence – sing this year's festival
into eternity.
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Edward Gardner conductor
Sara Hershkowitz soprano
Sunwook Kim piano
Ekaterina Gubanova mezzo-soprano
Toby Spence tenor
UNSUK CHIN (1961–)
Piano Concerto
GUSTAV MAHLER (1860–1911)
Das lied von der Erde
#FE STSPILLEN E19