The Music Department’s partner orchestra, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, has recorded the programme of a concert scheduled during the global health crisis for performance on its digital platform, OAE Player.
The film goes live on 10 February 2021 at 8pm. It will remain available on the OAE player thereafter. Below is the announcement of the premiere by the orchestra:
EMBERS OF ROMANTICISM
Watch a short clip from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde on YouTube
Book your ticket to watch the premiere of the complete film on OAE Player
Filmed in the beautiful Henry Wood Hall in Trinity Church Square and directed by Geoffrey Paterson, this film explores the tumultuous nature of romance through new arrangements of Wagner’s iconic Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, as well as other works from Richard Strauss, Webern and Pfitzner.
This programme is based on Thomas Mann’s novel Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn, Told by a Friend. In the novel, the eponymous character enters into a Faustian pact in which he trades his soul for compositional genius. The music in the concert relates to Mann’s novel through both direct references and thematic inferences.
Arrangements by OAE Principal Horn, Roger Montgomery.
WEBERN Passacaglia
WAGNER ‘Prelude’ and ‘Liebestod’ from Tristan und Isolde
PFITZNER Act 2 Vorspiel from Palestrina
STRAUSS Salome (excerpt)
WAGNER Act 3 Vorspiel from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
This film will premiere on Wednesday 10 February but you can pre-book your front-row seat to our upcoming OAE Player premiere now. Once you’ve added the concert to your basket and paid (£7), you are all set to watch the premiere when it starts at 8 pm.