| 20:00 | From young to old
OPENING CONCERT: LOOKING NORTH
A musical expedition to Scandinavia
Church of Peace Sanssouci / Address: Church of Peace
artists
Marianne Thorsen, violin
Frode Haltli, accordion
program
Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758)
Ouverture g-Moll
Suite g-Moll aus "Sjukmans Musiqen"
Johann Daniel Berlin (1714-87)
Violin concert A-Major
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
"Heart Wounds" from: Two elegiac Melodies op. 34
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Maiden’s Song
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Suite for string orchestra op. 1
Bent Sørensen (*1958)
"It is Pain Flowing Slowly on a White Wall" for accordion and strings
TRONDHEIM SOLISTENE
Musical director and violoncello: Øyvind Gimse
Jennipher Antoni reads from the account of a journey
"Voyage d’une femme au Spitzberg" by Léonie d’Aunet
description
In 1839 a nineteen-years old French girl accompanies her fiancée on an expedition going to the far North. The adventurous trip takes them via Denmark and Sweden to far beyond the borders of the civilized world and into the icy desert of Spitsbergen – and, quite surprisingly, on their way home they stop in Potsdam. The Norwegian city of Trondheim is another stop. And who could be more suited to turning Mademoiselle d’Aunets travel images into sound than the TRONDHEIM SOLISTENE. They are the top Orchestra from Scandinavia, which is rooted in the home landscape like none other and even owes it its distinctive sound – fresh and clear like a morning at a fjord …
