The works that were played that evening showed Fanny’s great artistry, dealing with all parameters of the music, including drama and transferring stirring music to the orchestra.
Of course, in line with the intentions of an enlightened education, the focus was on classical literature. For example, in the dramatic scene for soprano “Hero and Leander” or in the cantata for soprano, women’s choir and orchestra, a scene from Goethe’s “Faust II”. Two appealing works, which were implemented by Jacquelyn Wagner somewhat indistinctly, but otherwise very finely. Rhorer conducted these pieces with the orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, playing historical instruments, and the ladies of the Vienna Philharmonia Choir in the finest manner.
Intense and powerful
A masterpiece such as the overture to Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was combined with the no less appealing concert overture “The Fairy Tale of the Beautiful Melusine”. The mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland skilfully joined the first work. In order to really do justice to the focus on literature, the musical works were also contrasted with literary counterparts in the first part, which Wolfram Koch recited with incredible intensity and powerful language. He was also the clever Puck in Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. (wuss)
Source: Nachrichten
