Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Andris Nelsons
Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture »Hamlet« & Symphony No. 6
On the trail of the past
Pique Dame and Eugen Onegin; The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet: no one will seriously dispute that Tchaikovsky had a true gift for stage works. That makes it all the more exciting that the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under the baton of its music director Andris Nelsons has put two rarely-played Tchaikovsky pieces on the programme that both have their roots in the theatre.
The overture to his first opera, »The Voyevoda«, and the exciting and contrast-rich Fantasy Overture to Shakespeare’s »Hamlet« – the latter is the outcome of his failed plan to write incidental music for the play. With Tchaikovsky’s final work, the grandiose »Pathétique« Symphony, which the composer himself described as the »keystone of my entire oeuvre«, the orchestra connects the dots in this cleverly designed programme between Tchaikovsky’s early and his late work: a composer’s entire life in one concert.
Performers
Gewandhausorchester
conductor Andris Nelsons
Programme
Piotr I. Tschaikowsky
Overture from »The Voyevoda«, Op. 3
Overture-fantasia in F minor, Op. 67 »Hamlet«
– Interval –
Piotr I. Tschaikowsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 »Pathétique«
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