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Die vier Elemente

R Recreation
Geigerin Alexandra Tirsu
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Alexandra Tirsu

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Conductor Porträt Dirigent Ingmar Beck in blauem Hemd Ingmar Beck surprises us at the end of the season with baroque visions of fire, water, earth and air. Violinist Alexandra Tirsu im Porträt mit Geige Alexandra Tirsu counters with Oscar winner Rachel Portman's touching dream journey through the elements.

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großes Kino der Gefühle

In 1996 she won the Oscar for Best Film Score (Emma), and in 2000 she almost won it again (Chocolat). British composer Rachel Portman has a sixth sense for the great cinema of emotions in music. Her violin suite Tipping Points is the most beautiful example of this: a “Book of Change” about the four elements with entrancingly beautiful melodies, wonderfully played by Alexandra Tirsu. Ingmar Beck shows how much more dramatically the four elements were set to music in the French Baroque with the famous ballet suite by Jean-Féry Rebel.

Programme

Jean-Féry Rebel: Les Élémens (The Elements) 
Rachel Portman: Tipping Points (violin concerto) 

Intro

20 minutes before the beginning of each performance, Intendant Mathis Huber will tell you the story of the evening.

Tickets

Prices: EUR 85 / 70 / 55 / 39 / 23 
Subscriptions
Discounts: U27 - 50% off for all younger than 27

Cast

Alexandra Tirsu

Alexandra Tirsu im Porträt mit Geige
© Damián Posse Photography
Violin

The young Moldovan is regarded in the USA and Asia as one of the most brilliant violinists of her generation. Trained in Vienna and Switzerland, she favours 20th-century composers as well as Bach, Brahms and Britten. Highlights of her career to date include collaborations with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Korean Chamber Orchestra.

Recreation - The Orchestra

Gruppenfoto des Orchesters Recreation am Balkon im Grazer Stefaniensaal
© Nikola Milatovic
Orchestra

Recreation is special in many ways: consisting of musicians whose nationalities range from Japan to Venezuela, most of the members received part of their training in Graz. After its formation in 2002, the collective has played in unique halls such as the Alte Oper Frankfurt and has worked with outstanding conductors.

Ingmar Beck

Porträt Dirigent Ingmar Beck in blauem Hemd
© Fay Fox Studios
Conductor

Whether baroque opera or contemporary music theatre - world premieres are the speciality, visionary intuition the driving force of the German conductor and cellist. The former Augsburg Cathedral choirboy is a celebrated guest at renowned theatres in Europe and Canada, especially when it comes to creative pioneering work.

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