Tue, 27.10.2026
Season opening with Daniel Hope
Concert title
Season opening with Daniel Hope
Date
Tue 27.10.2026
Start of the concert
19:30
Contributors
Name of the ensemble
Daniel Hope (Music Director)
Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Zurich Chamber Orchestra
program
In Nature with Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony:
Nature, itself rich in sound, has always found its way into music – as onomatopoeic imitations of thunder, the sound of flowing water, or birdsong, but also as an expression of inner "feeling" in the face of its sublime beauty, power, and menace. In the grand opening concert, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Music Director Daniel Hope dedicate themselves to the work that stands out among musical depictions of nature like the highest mountain peak: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, the Pastoral. Beethoven masterfully gives expression to this inner experience of nature without merely "painting" it in sound, even when he has the nightingale, quail, and cuckoo imitated.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, on the other hand, dedicated his work *The Lark Ascending* to a different songbird, which became a veritable hymn of consolation in Great Britain after the First World War. The composer drew inspiration for this pastoral romance from a lark, soaring high above the earth and spreading its poignant song for minutes on end – and transformed this into an equally moving, ethereal violin solo.
PROGRAM
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony for String Orchestra No. 8 in D major, MWV N8 (version with wind instruments)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending for Violin and Small Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Pastoral, Op. 68
Nature, itself rich in sound, has always found its way into music – as onomatopoeic imitations of thunder, the sound of flowing water, or birdsong, but also as an expression of inner "feeling" in the face of its sublime beauty, power, and menace. In the grand opening concert, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Music Director Daniel Hope dedicate themselves to the work that stands out among musical depictions of nature like the highest mountain peak: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, the Pastoral. Beethoven masterfully gives expression to this inner experience of nature without merely "painting" it in sound, even when he has the nightingale, quail, and cuckoo imitated.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, on the other hand, dedicated his work *The Lark Ascending* to a different songbird, which became a veritable hymn of consolation in Great Britain after the First World War. The composer drew inspiration for this pastoral romance from a lark, soaring high above the earth and spreading its poignant song for minutes on end – and transformed this into an equally moving, ethereal violin solo.
PROGRAM
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony for String Orchestra No. 8 in D major, MWV N8 (version with wind instruments)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending for Violin and Small Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Pastoral, Op. 68
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