They dare the balancing act between horror and hope. A challenge that the 11 to 20-year-old members of the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie under the direction of their chief conductor Wolfgang Hentrich will master convincingly on this day of remembrance - 80 years since the end of the war, 75 years since the birth of Europe.
The first part of the concert will open with a haunting work by Ödön Pártos: Yizkor (in memoriam) for viola and orchestra, a composition in remembrance of the Holocaust (Solistin: Martha Roske). The 8th String Quartet by Dmitri Shostakovich, played by the DSP as Chamber Symphony op. 110a in the arrangement for string orchestra, bears the subtitle ‘In memory of the victims of fascism and war’ and will send the audience off into the interval moved.
Hope, joy and confidence are then audible after the interval when the orchestra performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's famous String Serenade together with around 40 pupils from music schools in Saxony. This second part of the concert will also honour Europe Day.
The concert will take place as part of the Music School Congress of the Association of German Music Schools in Dresden.
Program
Ödön Pártos
Yizkor (in memoriam) for viola and strings
Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor (in the arrangement by Rudolf Barschai for string orchestra)
Raphael Leichsenring
Composition for the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie (world premiere)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C major op. 48
Performers
Wolfgang Hentrich
Conductor
Martha Roske
viola
German Philharmonic String Orchestra
Orchestra
Pupils from music schools in Saxony
Organiser: Verband deutscher Musikschulen e. V.