The concert opens with the last orchestral work by Slavko Osterc, who profoundly marked Slovenian musical creativity as a composer and teacher in the first half of the twentieth century. As a bearer of new artistic outlooks, Osterc was an inspirational musical figure for new generations of composers hungry for modern aesthetic orientations and compositional techniques. Displaying refined emotional depth, the symphonic poem Mati (Mother) was created in 1940, just one year before the composer’s untimely death. Lyrical depth is also a feature of Alban Berg’s Seven Early Songs, written under the influence of the composer’s mentor, Arnold Schoenberg. The songs were initially conceived as lieder with piano accompaniment and were orchestrated some twenty years later. They will be interpreted by the young Slovenian soprano Nika Gorič, who has thrilled the audience of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra on many occasions. 

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