Christoph Eschenbach © Manu Theobald
Wiener Symphoniker / Bell / Eschenbach
Friday
22
December
2023
19:30 – ca. 21:15
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Fairy-tale sounds
The Vienna Symphony Orchestra will perform a fairy-tale ballet suite a
few days before Christmas: Tchaikovsky's suite from the ballet »The
Nutcracker« is one of his most popular works - and is traditionally
found on the repertoire especially around Christmas time. Christoph
Eschenbach not only conducts the charming ballet, which is based on the
material of E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale »Nutcracker and Mouse King«, but also
Tchaikovsky's only violin concerto. The composer wrote it in just three
weeks in Clarens, a town situated on the picturesque shores of Lake
Geneva. To this day, the work is one of the best-known and most
frequently performed violin concertos - it demands technical perfection
and an extraordinary musical sense: qualities that violinist Joshua Bell
possesses in the best possible way, having already recorded a reference
recording of the demanding composition on CD several years ago.
Publications
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