Lyric Symphony
Gulbenkian Orchestra / Alexander Liebreich
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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
50% – Under 30 years old
15% – Over 65 years old
- Alexander Liebreich Conductor
- Alban Gerhardt Cello
- Soprano
- Michael Nagy Baritone
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Gulbenkian Orchestra
In 1962, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation decided to establish a permanent orchestral ensemble. Originally with only twelve musicians (strings and continuo) it was named “Orquestra de Câmara Gulbenkian”. This collective was successively enlarged and today the “Orquestra Gulbenkian” (the name it has adopted since 1971) has a permanent body of sixty instrumentalists, a number that can be expanded depending on the repertoire.
This structure allows the Gulbenkian Orchestra to interpret works from the Baroque and Classical periods, a significant part of 19th century orchestral literature and much of the music of the 20th century, including works belonging to the current repertoire of the traditional symphonic orchestras. In each season, the orchestra performs on a regular series of concerts at the Gulbenkian Grand Auditorium in Lisbon, where it has had the opportunity of working together with some of leading names of the world of music (conductors and soloists). It has also performed on numerous locations all over Portugal, in an effort to decentralize music and culture.
The orchestra has been constantly expanding its activities in the international level, performing in Europe, Asia Africa, and the Americas. In the recording field, Orquestra Gulbenkian is associated to labels as Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Hyperion, Teldec, Erato, Adès, Nimbus, Lyrinx, Naïve and Pentatone, among others, and this activity was recognized with several international prizes.
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Johanna Winkel
Soprano
Johanna Winkel initially gained an excellent reputation in the Early Music scene and has since consistently been expanding her stylistic range to include Romantic and Modern repertoire. In concert she has sung with musicAeterna conducted by Teodor Currentzis, the Bonn Beethoven Orchestra conducted by Christof Prick, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Peter Dijkstra, the Cologne WDR Symphony Orchestra and Simon Halsey, Trevor Pinnock, Václav Luks, Jeffrey Tade, Frieder Bernius, Sylvain Cambreling, Alexander Liebreich, Howard Arman, Hans-Christoph Rademann, with the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra and Iván Fischer and many more.
Johanna Winkel also appears regularly on the opera stage. After already having performed the roles of Mimi, Donna Elvira and Micaela during her studies, she went on to sing the roles of Alcina (Handel, Alcina), Rosalinde (J. Strauss, Die Fledermaus), Agathe (Weber, Der Freischütz) and Leonore (Beethoven, Fidelio) at prominent opera houses in Germany to great success. Gerhilde in Wagner’s Die Walküre marked her début at the Salzburg Easter Festival under the baton of Christian Thielemann in 2017 and she subsequently repeated this role with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden and at Semperoper Dresden. After her first performances in 2016, Beethoven’s Leonore as become one of her signature roles and she has reprised it at the 2018 Styriarte Festival under the baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada and in 2020 with Wroclaw Boroque Orchestra under the baton of Jos van Immerseel.
Johanna Winkel has contributed as a soloist to numerous prizewinning recordings. Her CD releases include Louis Spohr’s Die letzten Dinge with the Bremen Kammerphilharmonie, Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, works by Mendelssohn with the Bavarian Radio Choir and Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Unsuk Chin
Cello Concerto
— Intermission 20 min —
Alexander Zemlinsky
Lyric Symphony, op. 18
Considered one of the most important German maestros of today, Alexander Liebreich conducted the Munich Chamber Orchestra for ten years, developing a productive rapport that assured him a leading place in European music. In 2018, following his performance of Requiem by Tigran Mansurian, recorded by ECM, he was nominated for a Grammy and became artistic director of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. For Gulbenkian Música, he will perform the engaging Lyric Symphony by Zemlinsky, a composer whose rivalry with Mahler meant this work was also considered a response to the acclaimed The Song of the Earth cycle.
Sponsor Gulbenkian Music
Sponsor Gulbenkian Orchestra
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