Running time:
1 part by 30 minutes; 2 part by 50 minutes
1 part by 30 minutes; 2 part by 50 minutes
6+
Рrogramme:
Richard Strauss (1864—1949)Metamorphosen, study for 23 solo strings TrV 290, AV 142 (1945)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 “Pathetic” in h minor, Op. 74 (1893)
Adagio – Allegro non troppo
Allegro con grazia
Scherzo. Allegro molto vivace
Adagio lamentoso
19 March 2022 Saturday
20.00
Grand hall
20.00 Grand hall
musicAeterna orchestra
Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Richard Strauss was composing the symphonic study Metamorphosen in the last months of World War II and finished it in April 1945. Originally a trick of Paul Zaher – the commission of the work was thought as just a way to help the aging composer leave German Garmisch for Switzerland for necessary medical treatment – the piece turned out to be one of the later masterpieces of Strauss. The shock of the Dresden and Munich bombing turned into an elegy in memory of a destroyed culture. In this work, there appear Richard Wagner’s Tristan motif, some hints of Mozart’s and Bach’s motifs, a range of self-references. In the finale Strauss directly quotes the Funeral March from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 and supplies the theme with a note in the score: In memoriam. These are the “Metamorphoses” intertwining the intonations of sorrow with the motives of hope and enlightenment.
Symphony No. 6 is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s musical testament. In the Symphony, one hears the composer’s personal psychological drama, and a message to humanity about the eternal confrontation of good and evil, and instrumental passions in the manner of Bach with hidden quotations, and the prophecy of the catastrophes of the times we live in. Tchaikovsky wrote his Sixth Symphony very quickly. He started working on it on February 4, 1893, and by August 19 he had completed the score and prepared the symphony for publication. The first performance took place in Saint Petersburg on October 16, 1893. Nine days later, the composer passed away. The symphony has a secret dedication to Tchaikovsky’s nephew Vladimir Davydov and the title “Pathétique”, which was proposed by the composer’s brother Modest Tchaikovsky. Although Tchaikovsky had shared the hidden programme of his composition with the family, it was never made public and has remained the subject of discussion and acute listening for centuries.
The event is organized by: Private Management Company “Eterna”
TIN 7840088740
Address: 191023, St Petersburg, Ul. Malaya Sadovaya 2/27, liter A
This concert is not included in discount programme of the Moscow Concert Hall “Zaryadye”.
Symphony No. 6 is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s musical testament. In the Symphony, one hears the composer’s personal psychological drama, and a message to humanity about the eternal confrontation of good and evil, and instrumental passions in the manner of Bach with hidden quotations, and the prophecy of the catastrophes of the times we live in. Tchaikovsky wrote his Sixth Symphony very quickly. He started working on it on February 4, 1893, and by August 19 he had completed the score and prepared the symphony for publication. The first performance took place in Saint Petersburg on October 16, 1893. Nine days later, the composer passed away. The symphony has a secret dedication to Tchaikovsky’s nephew Vladimir Davydov and the title “Pathétique”, which was proposed by the composer’s brother Modest Tchaikovsky. Although Tchaikovsky had shared the hidden programme of his composition with the family, it was never made public and has remained the subject of discussion and acute listening for centuries.
The event is organized by: Private Management Company “Eterna”
TIN 7840088740
Address: 191023, St Petersburg, Ul. Malaya Sadovaya 2/27, liter A
This concert is not included in discount programme of the Moscow Concert Hall “Zaryadye”.