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15.02.2023 | 19:30 Uhr
Masquerade
6th Philharmonic Concert

Description

"It's an old game: the transforming game of carnival. But what does the carnival laugh at? It laughs, and this is crucial, at everything. He laughs at morals and the mores. The patches are his favorite costume, and he does not shy away from exposure. He laughs at power. He laughs at what otherwise frightens and scares. The carnival plays its inverted game with above and below, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, man and woman." (Rüdiger Safranski)

"Le Carnaval romain" is the successful extract of a great opera flop. For in this Ouverture caractéristique for large orchestra, Hector Berlioz reworked some themes of his opera "Benvenuto Cellini," which as a "child of pain" had failed among his works at the premiere in 1838 at the Ópera in Paris.

Scene change: fairground bustle in St. Petersburg. A puppeteer enters the scene. The puppets come to life. A game of seduction and jealousy develops between Petrushka, a ballerina and a Moor, which ends fatally. This is how the plot of Igor Stravinsky's ballet "Petrushka" can be briefly summarized. In this work, very real life at the fair mixes with the play of puppets, with the initial puppet show eventually turning into a real tragedy. As in the carnival, the boundaries between reality and fiction blur; the puppets seem to become real people. What is appearance, what is reality? Is it all just a game?

Between the two works of the game with appearances: a scandal! Vienna experienced a turbulent premiere. The audience went wild, and not with enthusiasm. Peter Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto divided the minds, and the famous Viennese critic Eduard Hanslik wrote about this premiere: "Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto brings us for the first time to the gruesome idea of whether there might not be pieces of music that one hears stink." But critics can not only be merciless, they can also be hugely mistaken. The verdict on Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto was passed by posterity, and it quickly became an indispensable part of the Romantic concert repertoire. A masterpiece.

Program

Hector Berlioz 1803‒1869

»Le Carnaval romain. Ouverture caractéristique für großes Orchester«, op. 9

Peter Tschaikowsky 1840‒1893

Konzert für Violine und Orchester D-Dur

Igor Strawinsky 1882‒1971

Suite aus dem Ballett »Petrouschka« (Fassung 1947)

Mitwirkende

Gabriel Venzago

Chief Conductor

Hina Maeda

Violin

Concert Information

The concert introduction will take place one hour before the concert begins in the Konzil.

Concert is a part of the official tour of the Laureates of the 16th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, organised by the Henryk Wieniawski Society in cooperation with the National Institute of Music and Dance, financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

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