WDR Sinfonieorchester I WDR Sinfonieorchester I

Musikfest Berlin

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Info

A musical sensation: the highly expressive music of Yvonne Loriod is given a new lease of life. The brilliant pianist and legendary piano professor, born in Paris in 1924, was primarily known during her lifetime as a performer of her husband Olivier Messiaen’s music. The WDR Sinfonieorchester and Kent Nagano are presenting one of her numerous own compositions for orchestra for the very first time: La Sainte Face, a fifteen-movement musical depiction of the Saint’s Face for soprano and orchestra. The vocal part of this long-forgotten religiously influenced music will be undertaken by Sarah Aristidou. The work is accompanied by Felix Mendelssohn’s “Reformation Symphony” and Ein feste Burg by Alex Nante premiered in 2025.

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Artists

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Kent Nagano conductor
Sarah Aristidou soprano

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Programme

Alex Nante
^Eine feste Burg on Bach's Chorale, BWV 302

Yvonne Loriod
La Sainte Face for soprano and orchestra

Sarah Aristidou soprano

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 107 “Reformationˮ

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Additional information

Duration ca. 1 hour and 40 minutes

_{In cooperation with Berliner Festspiele/Musikfest Berlin}