Hong Kong Cultural Centre Venue Partnership Scheme: Tarmo Peltokoski Conducts Bruckner 7

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STRAUSS | Vier letzte Lieder BRUCKNER | Symphony no. 7 in E major, WAB 107 Penned in the same year that the composer’s Fourth Symphony first found success, Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony rises with the quiet grandeur of a vast cathedral, its spiritual strength shaped through patience, peace and poise. With the HK Phil, its newly appointed Music Director draws out the symphony’s arching first theme – a gift of nature or, as Bruckner himself believed, from God – before the work completes its circle in a finale of glowing affirmation. The programme opens with Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs, sung by soprano Asmik Grigorian. The New York Times writes that her singing reveals “a gleaming timbre, dark but not weighty, (that) expresses psychic depletion with graceful clarity,” bringing quiet serenity to Strauss’s farewell to life.

史特勞斯｜《最後四首藝術歌曲》 布魯赫納｜E大調第七交響曲，WAB 107 布魯赫納憑第四交響曲初嘗成功，同年他動筆創作第七交響曲，作品宛如一座宏偉的大教堂，在靜謐中展現其莊嚴氣度，並透過耐心、平和與從容，凝聚深厚的精神力量。新任音樂總監貝托祺指揮港樂，細緻鋪陳交響曲開首綿長的第一主題──一段彷彿來自自然，或如作曲家所相信，源於上帝的旋律──嚴謹的結構在終樂章圓滿，散發溫暖而堅定的光芒。音樂會以李察．史特勞斯晚年顛峰之作揭開序幕，女高音葛里戈里恩獻唱的《最後四首藝術歌曲》，被《紐約時報》形容為「音色閃耀，深沉而不厚重，能以優雅的清澈傳達內在的疲憊」。