Les Siècles Tickets

Carnegie Hall, New York, USA

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Important Info

Type: Classical Concert

City: New York, USA

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

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Overview

Visiting: Paris

Les Siècles – this orchestra’s name is its programme. Authenticity is key: Music from various centuries is interpreted on instruments from the respective eras. The concert at Musikfest Berlin will feature works by Rameau, Berlioz and Lachenmann.

In 2003, François-Xavier Roth founded the orchestra Les Siècles (The Centuries). His aspiration: All works were to be played on instruments that would have been customary at the time of their creation and first performance. The orchestral suite from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s musical and theatrical world-trip “Les Indes Galantes” will be interpreted on historical instruments from around the year 1750. Hector Berlioz’ symphony with viola solo was inspired by a literary source and written for the demonic violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, who wished for once to excel at the lower string instrument. It will be performed on French instruments from the mid-19th century. Helmut Lachenmann’s “Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung)” will be played on modern instruments.

These three composers were and are musical thinkers and fantasists, each in their own way. Their thinking in and about music is equally precise, far-sighted and convincing; their imagination transcends what already exists with every work, saving itself and the music from torpor. Conjecture about how music might be played in Turkey or Peru provided Rameau with unheard-of ideas on harmony and instrumentation. In his “Harold”-symphony, Berlioz found prototypical phrases of romantic musical language, integrating a stylised folkloristic sound and the chorale of (and in) nature like gleaming inlays. In “Mouvement”, Helmut Lachenmann poses the vital question of music as the work’s central concern, guiding “perception towards the anatomy of the [musical] manifestation”, where entirely familiar elements appear as something completely bewildering. The design of Les Siècles’ programme and sound reflects what is on Lachenmann’s mind: the materiality of music – and that includes everything that is heard – as its spiritual substance.

Venue Info

Carnegie Hall - New York
57th Street and Seventh Avenue

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1891, it is one of the most prestigious venues in the world for both classical music and popular music. Carnegie Hall has its own artistic programming, development, and marketing departments, and presents about 250 performances each season. It is also rented out to performing groups. The hall has not had a resident company since 1962, when the New York Philharmonic moved to Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall (renamed Avery Fisher Hall in 1973 and David Geffen Hall in 2015).

Carnegie Hall has 3,671 seats, divided among its three auditoriums.

Carnegie Hall contains three distinct, separate performance spaces.

Carnegie Hall is one of the last large buildings in New York built entirely of masonry, without a steel frame; however, when several flights of studio spaces were added to the building near the turn of the 20th century, a steel framework was erected around segments of the building. The exterior is rendered in narrow Roman bricks of a mellow ochre hue, with details in terracotta and brownstone. The foyer avoids typical 19th century Baroque theatrical style with the Florentine Renaissance manner of Filippo Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel: white plaster and gray stone form a harmonious system of round-headed arched openings and Corinthian pilasters that support an unbroken cornice, with round-headed lunettes above it, under a vaulted ceiling. The famous white and gold auditorium interior is similarly restrained. The firm of Adler & Sullivan of Chicago, noted for the acoustics of their theaters, were hired as consultant architects though their contributions are not known.