Copenhagen Phil
Conductor / Bjarni Frimann Bjarnason
Soloist / Josefine Opsahl, cello
Host / Olga Ravn
Ives / The unanswered question
Strozzi / Che si puo fare / Lagrime Mie
Opsahl / HANDS, world premiere of version for symphony orchestra
Mazzoli / Orpheus Undone, Danish world premiere
Stravinsky / The Firebird suite
Hildegard / O Rubor Sanguinis
Falla / El circulo magico from El Amor Brujo
OLGA RAVN: RE-ENCHANTMENT
As a poetic encounter between folk magic and symphonic music, star author and artist Olga Ravn enters into dialogue with the concert hall as a place and the concert as an event to re-enchant the listening moment.
With her deep knowledge of Nordic folk magic, Olga Ravn works to stage performances that reinterpret folk magic with inspiration from cultic ritual, the visual world of poetry and the concentration of performance art. It is this dialogue that now moves into the concert hall with a performance developed especially for the Copenhagen Phil.
Listen to Charles Ives’ evocative The Unanswered Question , the heartfelt sounds of Baroque composer Barbara Strozzi and Stravinsky’s haunting ballet suite The Firebird – as well as the premiere of the cello concerto HANDS with the award-winning Danish cellist and composer, Josefine Opsahl, who has established herself as a unique artist with prestigious concerts in, among others, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and at The Met in New York.