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World Premiere of Christian Jost's An die Hoffnung at the Grafenegg Festival

Jul. 11, 2016

World Premiere of Christian Jost's <em>An die Hoffnung</em> at the Grafenegg Festival

Christian Jost serves as composer-in-residence at this year’s Grafenegg Festival, which celebrates his music with the premieres of two new works.

The Festival opens on August 19, with the debut of Jost’s Fanfare, for nine winds, followed by the premiere of An die Hoffnung, for tenor and orchestra, with tenor Klaus Florian Vogt joining the Tonkünstler Orchestra, led by Yutaka Sado. An die Hoffnung is based on the eponymous song by Ludwig van Beethoven (Op. 94) and was co-commissioned by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.

Beethoven composed two settings of texts from Christoph August Tiedge’s Urania: the first in his early career and a second during his late compositional period. The later version, Op. 94, forms the core of Jost’s orchestral work in which he retains Beethoven’s original vocal line alongside some of his own harmonic lied material. Jost writes:

This orchestral work shares its instrumentation with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The agitated, rhythmically driven composition begins with an orchestral landscape characterized by minor thirds, expanding orchestrally on Beethoven’s fragile motif of ‘hope’ and culminating in a questioning veil of tender clusters, interweaving Tiedge’s final lines: ‘whether an angel waiting above will count my tears.’ 
 

On August 25, Jost leads the Tonkunstler Orchestra in a performance of his 2003 CocoonSymphonie, for large orchestra.

Details on the Grafenegg Festival can be found at grafenegg.com.

For more information on Christian Jost, visit schott-music.com.

Christian Jost
Fanfare (2016)
for nine winds
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4’ 

An die Hoffnung (2016)
for tenor and orchestra
text (Ger) after the eponymous song by Ludwig van Beethoven (op. 94)
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20’

CocoonSymphonie (2003)
Five Gateways of a Journey into the Interior
for large orchestra
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24’

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