Hong Kong Cultural Centre Venue Partnership Scheme: Season Opening: Manfred Honeck's Pastoral and Elektra

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BEETHOVEN | Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68, Pastoral STRAUSS (arr. HONECK & ILLE) | Elektra Suite From Beethoven’s Countryside to Strauss’s Inferno What better way to open a new season than with the Pastoral Symphony, a visionary work that opened new possibilities for symphonic music and gave it a vivid narrative voice? Honeck juxtaposes its evocation of Beethoven’s love of nature – where flowing streams and birdsong yield to the exhilaration of a thunderstorm and radiant thanksgiving – with his own Suite from Strauss’s Elektra.. Set against the mythic backdrop of Mycenae in the years after the Trojan War, the Suite further distils the seething world of Elektra, Clytemnestra, and Orest through its music of psychological violence, dark obsession, and explosive orchestral brilliance.

貝多芬｜F大調第六交響曲，op. 68，「田園」 史特勞斯（漢力克與艾廬改編）｜《深宮情仇》組曲 從貝多芬的田園風光到史特勞斯的煉獄烈焰 「田園」被視為標題音樂的先驅之作，啟發交響曲更多的創作可能，以此為新樂季揭幕最適合不過。貝多芬將他對大自然的深厚感情注入樂曲——溪流潺潺、鳥鳴婉轉，繼而雷雨驟至，最終雨過天晴快樂感恩——與史特勞斯《深宮情仇》組曲形成強烈對比。《深宮情仇》以特洛伊戰爭後邁錫尼的神話世界為背景，公主埃萊克特拉與王弟為父報仇憤而弑母，漢力克透過精心構想的組曲把故事的乖張暴戾、心理交戰與黑暗執念淬鍊成爆發力驚人的管弦樂曲。