Season Opening: Manfred Honeck's Pastoral and Elektra
17 SEP 2026 (Thu) 7:30pm
Venue Information
Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall
Public Subscription: 2 JUN (10:00) - 18 JUN (23:59)
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Programme
From Beethoven’s Countryside to Strauss’s Inferno
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.
Artist
- No eating or drinking
- No photography, recording or filming
- Latecomers will only be admitted at suitable break
- Please turn off your mobile phone and other electronic devices
- Please keep noise to a minimum during the performance
- Please reserve your applause until the end of the entire work
- Stalls C1-2/61-62, AA1-7/94-100, BB1-8/94-101 & HH27
- Wheelchair Box 1-2
