Forest wildlife wonder

Listening to rustling treetops and glistening streams with all the clarity of our minds - and not on a hike, but leaning back in the concert hall of our Capitol Theater. Is that possible? Of course. We've already proven a few times that phenomena that don't usually take place in the concert hall always work in Offenbach. So does the forest in the symphony concert. Of course, the stage looks a little different on this evening in November, when it is already dawning early in the woods outside. But above all, it sounds different there.

In the Caspar David Friedrich year, we naturally devote ourselves to the great romantic sound fantasy: "Wer hat dich, du schöner Wald" in four-part male voice and the overture to "Freischütz", indispensable. Who has ever composed skyward-shooting spruces and dark undergrowth more evocatively than Mendelssohn and Weber? There are also excerpts from the once highly famous symphony "Im Walde" by Brahms' contemporary Joachim Raff with mythical echoes of the legendary world of the Brothers Grimm and their contemporaries.

Would you also like to know how the great film composer John Williams thoughtfully composed an oak tree in 1995 - or how his American composer colleague Florentine Price composed the same tree over forty years earlier? These are just a few of the components of our concert as part of the Kulturfonds theme year "Forest" - in which (as in our culinary concert a year earlier) you will experience many surprises.

Last but not least, the forest itself will also make music for you. In collaboration with SCAPE°- Wetter. Climate. Mensch. you will hear how crystalline music develops on plant finds from the forest itself.

SILVAQUA I - DEWDROPS AND
II - CRYSTAL DROPS
for electronics

William Byrd (ca. 1543-1623)
VARIATIONS ON "WILL YOW WALKE THE
WOODS SO WYLDE" [excerpts] (c. 1600)

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
OVERTURE TO THE OPERA
DER FREISCHÜTZ (1820)

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
THE HUNTER'S FAREWELL (1839)

John Williams (*1932)
EÓ MUGNA - THE OAK
for bassoon and orchestra (1995)

Robert Schumann/N.N. (1810-1856)
FOREST SCENES FOR SUNKEN PIANO

Patrik Bishay (*1975) and others
COMPOSITION FOR LIVE NATURAL PROCESSES
AND ORCHESTRA (2024)

Florentine Price (1887-1953)
SONGS OF THE OAK [excerpt] (1943)

Joachim Raff (1822-1882)
SYMPHONY NO.3 IN F MAJOR OP.53 "IN THE FOREST"
[excerpts] (1869)
At night. Silent weaving of the night in the forest
Entry and exit of the wild hunt

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
THE NIGHT (1816)

male voice quartet
CAPITOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conductor: Judith Kubitz