Summer-Festival: “räsonanz” — Donor Concert
Overview
Intro
Konzerthausorchester Berlin | Berlin Radio Choir | Joana Mallwitz | Henze
A nearly hour-long Ninth Symphony with chorus and large orchestra: who wouldn’t think of Beethoven? But, “instead of praising joy, that beautiful spark of the gods” - to quote the Schiller line Beethoven sets in his Ninth - Henze said that in his Sinfonia N. 9 he evokes “a world of horror and persecution that continues to cast its shadow.” The work is based on Anna Seghers’s great anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross: seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, and only one of them manages to reach freedom. With gripping intensity and deep empathy, Henze traces the fugitives’ terror and the brutality of their pursuers - “an apotheosis of the terrible and the painful,” and at the same time “an expression of the greatest reverence for the people who resisted during the era of Nazi-fascist terror.” With Henze’s harrowing confession in sound, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and its acclaimed Chief Conductor Joana Mallwitz make their Lucerne Festival debut. And since Joana Mallwitz is not only a thrilling maestra but also a gifted communicator, she will introduce the symphony herself at the start of the concert.
Performers:
Konzerthausorchester Berlin
Berlin Radio Choir
Florian Helgath, chorus master
Joana Mallwitz, conductor
Program:
Introduction at the beginning of the concert:
Joana Mallwitz in conversation with Sebastian Nordmann (in German)
Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)
Sinfonia N. 9 for mixed chorus and orchestra. Text based on Anna Seghers’s novel The Seventh Cross by Hans-Ulrich Treichel
This concert has no intermission
| Contact address |
Lucerne Festival
Hirschmattstrasse 13 6003 Luzern +41 (0)41 226 44 00 info@lucernefestival.ch +41 (0)41 226 44 60 |
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| Location |
KKL Luzern Konzertsaal Europaplatz 1 6005 Luzern Switzerland |
| Event Homepage | https://www.lucernefestival.ch/de/programm/konzerthausorchester-berlin-rundfunkchor-berlin-joana-mallwitz/2365 |
| Price |
CHF 120.00 | 90.00 | 60.00 | 30.00
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Event dates
- 07 September 2026
Tickets from 24.03. 2026 | 10 am (CET)
