CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune
PJOTR ILJITSCH TSCHAIKOWSKY
Concerto for violin and orchestra, D major, op. 35
BÉLA BARTÓK
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116
Orchestre National de Lille
Alexandre Bloch, conductor
Nemanja Radulović, violin
World-class Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulović performs the virtuoso Violin Concerto by Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, a work whose grandiose blend of melancholy-toned "Russian soul" and dance-like vitality challenges the soloist as much as the orchestra - and brings pure joy to the audience. The "Orchestre National de Lille" is one of the leading orchestras in France and speaks its mother tongue, as it were, in Debussy's wondrous sound picture about a faun's midday rest. This also applies to the orchestra's young music director, Alexandre Bloch, who has had a stellar career over the past ten years. After the intermission, the program includes Béla Bartók's "Concerto for Orchestra," one of the most popular works of "classical modernism," in which the Hungarian master in American exile gave timelessly gripping expression to his homesickness, but also to his anger over fascism in Europe.
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One-way tickets: € 27- € 93
€13 for U27 - bookable 30 days prior to event!
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Introductory lecture: 6:45 p.m., Fördererlounge
