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Begin: 7:00 pm
Break: 7:55 pm
End: 9:10 pm
Opening speech of the president of the Tyrol Festival Erl Dr. Hans Peter Haselsteiner
Reinhold Glière
“The Zaporozhy Cossacks” Ouverture op. 64
2nd speech
Sir Edward Elgar
„Introduction and Allegro“ op. 47
for string orchestra and string quartet
3rd speech
Richard Wagner
Siegfried's death from the opera „Götterdämmerung“
Giuseppe Verdi
Prelude from the opera "Nabucco"
Anton Bruckner
Te Deum in C-major WAB 45
Orchester und Chor der Tiroler Festspiele Erl
Conducting Erik Nielsen
Violine Erik Schumann
Violine Ken Schumann
Viola Veit Hertenstein
Violoncello Mark Schumann
In the welcome address for the opening concert in 2022 a unified Europe was extolled and it is with music by Reinhold Glière – born in Kiev, died in Moscow, son of the instrument maker Moritz Glier from the Vogtland – that we embark on a small musical journey.
The arts can provide the building bricks to bridge over trenches, or perhaps even the English Channel. Sir Edward Elgar’s music is also on the programme without pomp and circumstance, but unmistakably Elgar, one of his short, noble pieces.
The Tyrol Festival Orchestra is assisted by the Schumann Quartet which enthralled audiences already last summer and again this year gives two more concerts. What would the Tyrol Festival Erl be without Richard Wagner at the beginning of the year? After Bayreuth the route heads towards Milan and Verdi. They are both pioneering composers, both born in 1813, and both revolutionised opera in their own nationalistic way. Throughout their life they avoided each other.
Anton Bruckner brings us back to Austria. His Te Deum, still one of his most popular works and described by the deeply religious composer as the “pride of his life” is absolutely the perfect conclusion to the first concert as well as the perfect beginning of the Tyrol Festival Erl 2023.