Oslo-filharmoniens Chamber Series: Music in transformation

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Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen, TrV 290

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Oslo-filharmoniens Chamber Series: Music in transformation

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Oslo-filharmoniens Chamber Series: Music in transformation The season's last chamber concert mirrors the season finale, with two significant works by the same composers: György Ligeti and Richard Strauss. Programme: Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 «Metamorphosis Nocturnes» György Ligeti (1923-2006) wrote his String Quartet No. 1 «Metamorphosis Nocturnes» in 1953-54, where the title refers to the form of the work. As the composer himself explained: «It is a kind of variation form, but there is no specific theme to be varied. Rather, one and the same musical concept materialises in constantly new forms, and therefore Metamorphoses is more precise than Variations.» Ligeti's early works were too strong meat for the authorities, and many of them were left lying in a drawer. He fled Hungary in 1956 after the Soviet invasion, and this string quartet was therefore not premiered until 1958, at the Musikverein in Vienna. Strauss: String Septet «Metamorphosen» Richard Strauss's (1864-1949) String Septet «Metamorphosen» is one of the composer's best-known works. It is written as an elegy, funeral music, over the ravages of the Second World War. Metamorphosen was inspired by two self-searching poems by Göthe with the same title, and Strauss shows his brilliance by presenting several themes that he then changes along the way. There is little doubt that this work is an outlet for the deepest despair and grief over what the war had brought about and how the world had become. Performers: Øyvind Fossheim, violin Aslak Juva, violin Cecilia Wilder, viola Einar Kyvik Bauge, viola Hans Josef Groh, cello Katarina Hager-Saltnes, cello (strauss) Danijel Petrovic, double bass (strauss) Tickets are sold through Sentralen.