© Felix Broede
© Felix Broede
© Giancarlo Pradelli
© Giancarlo Pradelli
© Marco Borggreve
© Marco Borggreve
  • Weimarhalle

3rd Symphony Concert

Conducted by Francesco Angelico / Soloist: Vadim Gluzman (Violine)

Peter I. Tschaikowsky »Francesca da Rimini«. Sinfonische Fantasie nach Dante op. 32
Peter I. Tschaikowsky Konzert für Violine und Orchester D-Dur op. 35
Alfredo Casella Sinfonie Nr. 1 op. 5

 

Alfredo Casella is best known today as the man who rediscovered Antonio Vivaldi in the 20th century. However, his own music, which was enthusiastically Wagnerian for a short time and later embraced the stylistic devices of the 17th and 18th century, is certainly worth listening to! It unites the neoclassical style with twelve-tone elements, polyphony with polytonality, and is characterised by dancelike movements and folkloric melodies featuring a sparkling array of instrumentation.

Tchaikovsky’s one and only violin concerto incited the famous critic Hanslick to consider »the terrible idea of whether there might also exist pieces of music which you can hear stinking.« Undoubtedly, Hanslick was referring to the concentrated emotional force, with which Tchaikovsky took compositional liberty arranging the wildly percussive passages of frustration and melancholy. Aside from its brilliant virtuosity, the concerto enchants the listener with lyrical beauty. Torn between joy and hellish torment, Tchaikovsky allows his Francesca da Rimini to follow in the steps of Dante. »I wrote it with love, and it turned out well.«

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  • Francesco Angelico (Dirigent)
  • Vadim Gluzman (Violine)