Orchesterlieder im Wiener Musikverein

About the Event

Two outstanding contemporary voices, accompanied by enchanting, intoxicating sounds, and at the same time an opulent exploration of the paths taken by Richard Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde” in the music city of Vienna at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries: Fabien Gabel, together with the sound artists, once again transports us back to those times when orchestral richness and brilliance first came into being. With Tristan, Wagner created an eternal monument to the insatiable desire for loving union. And for songs and lieder by Alexander Zemlinsky and Alban Berg, which grew out of this romantic longing and delusion, Kate Lindsey and Nikola Hillebrand have been enlisted: two fabulous singers who have already caused a sensation with the Tonkünstler audience with music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and individually in works by Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. Joseph Marx's Symphonic Night Music is a beguiling rarity: O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe from Tristan is dissolved into wonderfully light, gracefully flattering summer breezes and scents with a late Romantic‐Impressionist flair.

Wiener Musikverein

The Wiener Musikverein is one of the world's great concert halls. The home of the Vienna Philarmonic Orchestra and the centre of Viennese musical life, the building was opened in 1870 as a part of an ambitious plan to create an elegant cultural boulevard along the Ringstrasse. Designed in the Neo‐Classical style to resemble an Ancient Greek temple, the Great Hall of the Musikverein is deemed to be one of the best music halls in the world thanks to its impeccable acoustics.
In 2004 four new halls were added to the building. The Austrian architect Wilhelm Holzbauer recognised the aesthetic importance of the existing building and sought out ways to echo the style in a modern language of form. Each of the four New Halls focuses on a different material — glass, metal, stone, and wood.