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Martinů Festtage 2025 | Festival Closing Concert

Sunday 2 November 2025, 5.00 pm
Music Hall, Stadtcasino Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Closing Concert | The Epic of Gilgamesh

4.00 pm Introduction by Christian Reichart
5.00 pm Concert

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Fragments KV 417d, KV 587a
Leopold van der PALS: Songs for Soprano and Orchestra, Op. 67b (1926), based on texts by Rudolf Steiner Darkness, Light, Love
Antonín DVOŘÁK: A Hero's Song, Op. 111, B199
Bohuslav MARTINŮ: Epic of Gilgamesh H 351, oratorio for soli, mixed choir and orchestra

Rundfunkchor Berlin
Neues Orchester Basel
Christian Knüsel (conductor)
Benjamin Goodson (choirmaster)
Aphrodite Patoulidou (soprano)
Peter Lodahl (tenor)
Douglas Ray Williams (baritone)
Jan Martiník (bass)
Lukas Magnus Paulsteiner (narrator)

More information: https://martinu.ch/programm/the-epic-of-gilgamesch-rundfunkchor-berlin-neues-orchester-basel/