Ascetic / SMS 4
Program
Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra
Joel Sandelson conductor
Dame Sarah Connolly soprano
A unique feature of musical art is the multifaceted connection of diverse compositions, which reveal certain similarities despite their many differences. Thus, parallels can be drawn between the ascetic personal musical expression of the neoclassical Slavko Osterc and two composers from the late nineteenth century. Osterc’s purified, declarative and not overly internalised Religioso is transformed into a distanced but vivid introduction to Mahler’s composition of deepest sorrow, while at the same time foreshadowing Anton Bruckner’s distinctly unromantic “Romantic” Symphony.