Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra: Consortium Musicum Choir

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Emmanuel Villaume conducts the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovenian Chamber Choir, the Consortium Musicum Choir and the Academic Choir Tone Tamosic.

tenor: Janez Lotrič
soprano: Sabina Cvilak

The Song of the Night, or the Third Symphony, by Karol Szymanowski, in which the sound of the orchestra and the voices of the soloist (tenor) and choir blend into a charming amalgam, is an extraordinary musical setting of poetry by the great Persian poet and Sufi Jalal’al Din Rumi, in a Polish translation by Tadeusz Miciński.



Numerous specialists designate the Four Last Songs, based on texts by Joseph von Eichendorff and Hermann Hesse, as Strauss’s own requiem. The first of the songs was not performed until after the composer’s death, with the premiere being given by Kirsten Flagstad conducted by the celebrated Wilhelm Furtwängler.



Maurice Ravel had been intending to write a symphonic poem entitled Vienna, when in 1919 the renowned Djagilev prompted the final realisation of the composition as the “decadent version” of the Viennese waltz — the choreographic poem La Valse.