Residentie Orkest The Hague 

Jun Märkl, conductor 

Ruby Hughes, soprano 

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) 

Ma Mère l'Oye, cinq pièces enfantines (1908-1910/1911) 

• Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty) 

• Petit Poucet (Little Thumb) 

• Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes (Laideronnette -ugly witch-, Empress of the pagodas) 

• Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête (Conversation between the Beautiful and the Beast) 

• Le jardin féerique (The enchanted garden) 

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) 

Rückert-Lieder ( 1901-1902) 

• Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder! 

• Ich atmet' einen linden Duft 

• Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 

• Um Mitternacht 

• Liebst du um Schönheit (orchestration Max Puttmann) 

Break 

Gijs van der Heijden (1982)
One Minute Symphony: Kanikama Shinshuu no. 2 (2022) 

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 

Symphony no. 3 in F, op. 90 (1883) 

• Allegro con brio 

• Andante 

• Poco allegretto 

• Finale: Allegro 

End of concert approximately 10:15 p.m. 

Residentie Orkest The Hague 

Jun Märkl, conductor 

Ruby Hughes, soprano 

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) 

Rückert-Lieder ( 1901-1902) 

• Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder! 

• Ich atmet' einen linden Duft 

• Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 

• Um Mitternacht 

• Liebst du um Schönheit (orchestration Max Puttmann) 

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 

Symphony no. 3 in F, op. 90 (1883) 

• Allegro con brio 

• Andante 

• Poco allegretto 

• Finale: Allegro 

End of concert approximately 12:15 p.m. 

Jun Märkl - conductor 

Studied Violin piano and orchestral conducting at the Musikhochschule in Hanover. Studied with Sergiu Celibidache, Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa, among others. 

Current position Chief Conductor Malysian Philharmonic Orchestra, regular guest conductor Residentie Orkest, artistic advisor Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra. 

Highlights Stood as conductor for all European opera houses. Was chief conductor of the Staatstheater in Saarbrücken (1991-1994), Mannheim Nationaltheater (1994-2000), Orchestre National de Lyon (2005-2011), MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig (2007-2012) and Basque National Orchestra (2014-2016). Conducted, among others, the Orchestre de Paris, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle Orchester, Wiener Symphoniker and many American orchestras. Conducted Wagner's complete Ring at the Deutsche Oper. Made his debut at the Residentie Orkest in 2011. 

Ruby Hughes - soprano 

Studies Began training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) as a cellist. Still chose singing and took classes at the Musikhochschule in Munich and Royal College of Music in London.  

Highlights Worked with orchestras such as Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenmen and Les Arts Florissants with Ivor Bolton, Thierry Fischer, René Jacobs and Jan Willem de Vriend. Mahler's Second Symphony she recorded with the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä. Gave recitals at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus and Carnegie Hall; also sang several opera roles at Theater an der Wien and the English National Opera. Makes her debut at the Residentie Orkest. 

Awards BBC New Generation Artist, Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, winner of first prize and audience award London Handel Singing Competition (2009). 

Residentie Orkest The Hague 

Founded The Hague, 1904 

Current chief conductor Anja Bihlmaier 

Permanent guest conductors Richard Egarr and Jun Märkl 

Chief conductors Henri Viotta, Peter van Anrooy, Frits Schuurman, Willem van Otterloo, Jean Martinon, Ferdinand Leitner, Hans Vonk, Evgenii Svetlanov, Jaap van Zweden, Neeme Järvi, Nicholas Collon. 

To be seen at Amare, Paard, The National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw, De Doelen, TivoliVredenburg among others . 

Education Annual outreach to over 40,000 schoolchildren, adults and amateur musicians in educational projects. Part of this is The Residents, through which the orchestra brings hundreds of children from districts in The Hague into contact with classical music. 

Ravel, Mahler & Brahms 

Ravel's Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother the Goose) had its origins in the nursery of Mimie and Jean Godebski, the children of Ravel's friends Cyprien and Ida. For the composer, their house was a "home," and he even took some artist friends there. While debating, declaiming and especially playing music in the living room, Ravel often slipped upstairs to play with the two children. Little Mimie and Jean apparently played the piano quite well, because in 1908 Ravel composed a quatre-mains for them: the Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant, inspired by the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. Subsequently, four more fairy tale miniatures were created. When the time came for the public premiere, little Mimie and Jean declined, forcing Ravel to seek out two substitutes at the conservatory's preparatory school. Ravel would adapt the miniatures twice, in a "Suite de Concert" for orchestra (1911) played tonight and a year later in a "Suite de Ballet" in which the five movements were expanded. One movement in particular gains strength in the orchestral version: the Last movement with the ecstatic apotheosis of the Magic Garden, which already has an orchestral allure even in the piano version.
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