SWR Symphonieorchester / Yulianna Avdeeva / Teodor Currentzis
Ravel / Prokofjew / Strawinsky
Radical music, radical conductor
Igor Stravinsky’s »Le sacre du printemps« was the biggest scandal in music history and one of the most important works in modernism. Composed in 1913 as the last of his three ballet works for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the work caused a furore in Paris when it was premiered. The audience went wild when they heard this innovative music, which – with its dissonances and hard rhythms – threw all musical conventions overboard. The ideal work, then, for Teodor Currentzis, who is known around the world for his often radical, always exciting interpretations. His recording of the »Sacre« with his musicAeterna ensemble a few years ago was lavished with praise. He now carries over this »breath-taking excitement« (Spiegel Online) to his second orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, and presents Stravinsky’s masterpiece in Hamburg.
Rhythm also plays a key role in Maurice Ravel’s »Boléro«, which was also originally intended as a ballet work. The snare drum maintains the same motif for almost 20 minutes, with the other instruments developing a dreamy melody in a string of new variations. Like »Le sacre du printemps«, »Boléro« is another of the most-performed works from the orchestral canon. Juxtaposed between those two pieces, the Chopin Competition-winner Yulianna Avdeeva performs Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2: it too boasts expressionistic features, but it also captivates the soul with its late-Romantic passages.
Performers
SWR Symphonieorchester
Yulianna Avdeeva piano
conductor Teodor Currentzis
Programme
Sergej Prokofjew
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 2 g-Moll op. 16
Encore:
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne cis-Moll op. posth. BI 49
– Interval –
Igor Strawinsky
Le sacre du printemps / Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts
Maurice Ravel
Boléro
Nach(t)konzert:
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Klaviertrio Nr. 2 e-Moll op. 67
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