On the programme

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy [1809 - 1847]
Octet E flat major op. 20
1st movement Allegro moderato ma con fuoco

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1756 - 1791]
DON GIOVANNI KV 527
arranged as harmony music for wind octet and double bass

Giles Farnaby [c. 1563 - 1640]
"Fancies, Totes and Dreames" for brass quintet

Gabriel Fauré [1845 - 1924]
Pavane op. 50 for brass quintet

Giacomo Puccini [1858 - 1924]
"Crisantemi" for strings

Evgeni Orkin [*1977]
Night Prayer - A Commissioned Composition

Sebastian Heindl [*1997]
Organ improvisation on a Ukrainian folk song
"Choralna preljudija

In 2016, conductor Oksana Lyniv founded the Youth Symphony of the Ukraine in her home country and brought together the country's best young musicians. The war has scattered the members, aged between 12 and 22, across many countries, but has not been able to interrupt the activity of the ensemble, which has quickly become internationally known. To support the youth orchestra in its work, members of the orchestra joined forces with musicians from the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin for a benefit concert entitled "Wilni - Die Freien". Under the direction of Oksana Lyniv and Sir Donald Runnicles, works by Mozart, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Puccini and others are on the programme in the Gedächtniskirche, as well as the world premiere of the commissioned composition "Nachtgebet" by Evgeni Orkin. The programme will be moderated by rbb journalist Petra Gute and under the patronage of Joachim Gauck, former Federal President of Germany.