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Concert

Don Quixote

Alain Altinoglu

Presentation
Where there’s music, there can be no evil— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

Richard Strauss’s symphonic poem Don Quixote takes the audience on a journey of orchestral variations that relate the knight errant’s adventures, a romantic allegory of the composer himself. In contrast to this programmatic precision, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B minor is shrouded in mystery. On the night of its premiere, when the composer was asked whether his new symphony explored a particular theme, he agreed, but revealed nothing more. Nine days later, Tchaikovsky suddenly died. Since then, the work has been the object of much speculation: a testament, a love letter, a suicide note … What remains is a deeply moving symphony that is among the most popular in the repertoire.

Programme
  • Richard Strauss
    Don Quixote. Fantastische Variationen über ein Thema ritterlichen Characters, op. 35 (1897)
  • Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
    Symphony N°6 in B Minor “Pathétique”, op.74 (1893)
Cast
Cast

ConductorALAIN ALTINOGLU

CelloGEORGI ANICHENKO
ViolaYVES CORTVRINT

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

ProductionLA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
Co-presentationBOZAR MUSIC

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