Symphoniker Hamburg / Sylvain Cambreling

Overflowing imagination and unfettered instrumentation! Berlioz’s »Le carnaval romain« overture from 1844 is a virtuosic masquerade that evokes exuberant carnival celebrations during the life of the Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini – complete with great love scenes. That is followed in this concert by a work by the melancholic Tchaikovsky, who loved to escape to distant worlds when he found himself in various life crises – as was the case in winter 1876/77. His emotionally powerful »Rococo Variations« carry the listener away to a long-lost world in which everything seemed to be perfect – the world of periwigs and grand balls.