Symphoniker Hamburg / Edgar Moreau / Charles Dutoit
Fauré: Suite from »Pelléas et Mélisande« / Haydn: Cello Concerto / Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Barriers to love
In 1898, Fauré was commissioned by the Prince of Wales Theatre in London to write a piece of music to Maurice Maeterlinck’s play »Pelléas et Mélisande«, a key work of French-language symbolism that also inspired Debussy to compose his opera and Schoenberg to write his early tone poem. Fauré later put together four larger symphonic fragments from the stage score to create an orchestral suite.
The second work of the evening is Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto. A masterpiece of classical music that demands a virtuosic mastery of the cello, with orchestral accompaniment in a perfect balance of power and finesse.
The concert comes to a triumphant close with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. One of his best-known works, it boasts unique dramatic qualities, captivating rhythms and melancholic sound worlds.
Performers
Symphoniker Hamburg
Edgar Moreau violoncello
conductor Charles Dutoit
Programme
Gabriel Fauré
Suite from »Pelléas et Mélisande«, Op. 80
Joseph Haydn
Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester C-Dur Hob. VIIb:1
Piotr I. Tschaikowsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
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