Event info

Daníel Bjarnason's new orchestral work, Collider, is named after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory. The work was premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra last March. Collider was well received, with one reviewer calling it “a fascinating journey in time and space.”

The Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, a harbinger of new times in music history, stands beside La mer as one of Debussy's most popular works.

György Ligeti opened up a new world of sound with his ground-breaking Lontano, captivating (among others) filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, who used Ligeti's music in several of his films.

Baritone Ólafur Kjartan Sigurðarson sang his way into the hearts of the audience at his performance with the ISO last year. He returns to sing Mahler's song cycle Kindertotenlieder, composed to poems by Friedrich Ruckert following the death of two of the poet's children from scarlet fever.

PROGRAMME
Claude Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
György Ligeti
Lontano
Daníel Bjarnason
Collider
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder
Claude Debussy
La mer

CONDUCTOR
Daníel Bjarnason

SOLOIST(S)
Ólafur Kjartan Sigurðarson