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15 February 2025 Barcelona (Spain)
Tchaikovsky's First Symphony
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC) conducted by Stephanie Childress - L'Auditori
Program Info: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC) Stephanie Childress, conductor Albert Cano Smit, piano Yamen Saadi, violin
With a title in which colour acts as a declaration of principles, Xavier Montsalvatge’s Calidoscopi Simfònic will open a concert that includes two solo performances with orchestra.
The first, Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Concerto for Violin in D major, written in 1945, is a beguiling virtuoso work, in which exploration enhances expression, without losing sight of the concert tradition. The programme also includes Sergei Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto, which begins with an emphatic display of sound by the orchestra and the soloist, indicative of the young composer’s aspirations.
Another first is the “Winter Dreams” Symphony, which Tchaikovsky dedicated to the musician Nikolai Rubinstein. Completing the work was a long, painful process at a time when the composer’s morale was low. Almost twenty years later, he produced a revised version of this fascinating creation, which alludes to the soundscape he had in mind.
Repertoire Xavier Montsalvatge: Calidoscopi simfònic, Op. 61 (1955) Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (1945), the concerto has themes from the scores for the movies ANOTHER DAWN (1937), ANTHONY ADVERSE (1936) & THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (1937) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 in G minor “Winter Dreams”, Op. 13 (1868; rev. 1886)
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