Elna Garana & Sir Simon Rattle in Baden-Baden, Osterfestspiele 2018

Elīna Garanča & Sir Simon Rattle in Baden-Baden 2018 Elīna Garanča Berliner Philharmoniker Sir Simon Rattle Alban Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder for Voice and Orchestra Maurice Ravel: Schéhérazade (Trois Poèmes) for Voice and Orchestra Igor Stravinsky: Pétrouchka (revised version from 1947) At this concert performance from the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden, the Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle and the Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča performed music from the early 20th century. The Seven Early Songs by Alban Berg were youthful works from the early twentieth century which Berg later revised and orchestrated. Maurice Ravel’s three-part cycle Shéhérazade was premiered in 1903, the protagonist is the famous storyteller from the One Thousand and One Nights collection of tales. With Petrushka Stravinsky captures the colour of a nineteenth-century Russian fair.