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Sat., 19/07/2025 from 08:00 o'clock

Styriarte hike “In nature”

Pöllau

Five fabulous wind soloists will take us on a journey from Pöllau Castle through the myth of the god Pan and his nymph Syrinx.

Morning hike
The god Pan carves his flute from the reed into which the nymph Syrinx has just transformed herself. The Styriarte tells this primal myth of all pastoral music at the place where it happened: in the reeds by the pond. This is exactly where Britten imagined his “Metamorphoses” for solo oboe - as an open-air sound in the middle of nature. The audience wanders to the magical places where water and land, music and myth meet.

Program

As a prelude
Wolfgang Kornberger: New work for wind band (premiere)

Music band Pöllau (conductor: Rainer Pötz)

For the hike
Benjamin Britten: Metamorphoses after Ovid (oboe)
Claude Debussy: Syrinx (flute)
Olivier Messiaen: Appel interstellaire (horn)
Abîme des oiseaux (clarinet)
Erwin Schulhoff: Bass Nightingale (contrabassoon)
Amy Beach: Pastorale, op. 151 (for wind quintet)
Antonín Dvořák: American Quartet (arranged for wind quintet)

Maria Beatrice Cantelli, flute / Hanami Sakurai, oboe / Wolfgang Kornberger, clarinet / Matthias Predota, horn / Ivan Calestani, bassoon & contrabassoon
 
Duration: approx. 3 1/2 hours in total. A real hike. Even in the rain.

Tickets
Price: EUR 48

Discounts:
U27 (for all under 27) & Ö1 Intro: 50% discount

Date and time

Sat., 19/07/2025
Starts at: 08:00 O'clock

Event location

Pöllau - Meeting point Churchyard

Organizer

Steirische Kulturveranstaltungen GmbH
Sackstraße 17
8010 Graz