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The OCL in Geneva

OSR invites Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

Thursday

16.01.2025

19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva

Series S
OCL
Opera & Voice

Programme

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanneorchestra

Hossein Pishkarconductor

Christian ImmlerBass-baritone

Joseph Haydn
The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross

Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder, for baritone and orchestra

Approximately 1h30 without intermission

The music

Unfortunately, Mr. Johan Reuter is not able to sing the concert on January 16 2025.

He is replaced by Mr. Christian Immler whom we warmly thank for having been able to make himself available.

Bass-baritone Christian Immler will perform Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, under the direction of Iranian conductor Hossein Pishkar, who is coming to Geneva to lend his energy to this intense and moving programme of vocal music.

In the first piece, spiritual and poignant, Haydn combines religious depth with musical inventiveness, setting to music the last words of Christ on the cross. A masterpiece of the classical period, imbued with contemplation and beauty. Interwoven with this is a deeply moving vocal cycle, in which Mahler explores the theme of grief and loss through poems by Friedrich Rückert, written after the death of his children.

An intense emotional journey, carried by masterful orchestration and sublime interpretation.

The venues

OSR Live

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Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 5

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 16 February 2022 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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JONATHAN NOTT

Conductor

Yvonne Naef

mezzo-soprano

György Ligeti
Poème symphonique, pour cent métronomes

Johann Sebastian Bach
Komm süsser Tod (orchestration by Leopold Stokowski)

Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

Recorded on 21 January 2021 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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