Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui | HK Phil: Season Opening - Manfred Honeck’s Pastoral and Elektra

Description

BEETHOVEN | Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68, Pastoral

STRAUSS (arr. HONECK & ILLE) | Elektra Suite

What better way to open a new season than with the Pastoral Symphony, a visionary work that opened new possibilities for symphonic music and gave it a vivid narrative voice? Honeck juxtaposes its evocation of Beethoven’s love of nature – where flowing streams and birdsong yield to the exhilaration of a thunderstorm and radiant thanksgiving – with his own Suite from Strauss’s Elektra. Set against the mythic backdrop of Mycenae in the years after the Trojan War, the Suite further distils the seething world of Elektra, Clytemnestra, and Orest through its music of psychological violence, dark obsession, and explosive orchestral brilliance.

The concert runs approximately 2 hours with an intermission.

For ages 6 and above