Jakub Hrůša © Dieter Nagl
Wiener Philharmoniker / Hrůša
Friday
8
September
2023
19:30 – ca. 21:30
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
The Circle of Life
In Leoš Janáček's stroke of genius »The Cunning Little Vixen« from 1924, everything revolves around the mystical cycle of life and death. The profound fable, which interweaves the animal and human worlds, inspired Janáček to write great music that audiences wanted to hear in the concert hall early on. Conductor Václav Talich undertook a suite-like arrangement of Act 1, on which Sir Charles Mackerras's arrangement is also based, but which adheres entirely to Janáček's original orchestration. After George Enescu's Suite No. 1, Jakub Hrůša, the designated music director of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, has Sergei Rachmaninoff's last completed composition, a large-scale piece of »confessional music,« placed on the Philharmonic desks. The three movements with the later erased programmatic titles »Noon«, »Dusk«, and »Midnight« represent periods in the life of the self-critical Rachmaninoff, who called the »Symphonic Dances,« op. 45, his best work.
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