Lisa batiashvili and antonio pappano news
Lisa batiashvili and antonio pappano news
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London Symphony Orchestra
The concert will open with the virtuosic overture Le corsaire, in which French composer Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) was inspired by the narrative poem of the same name by English romantic poet Lord Byron.
The first half of the concert will culminate in a performance of Violin Concerto No. 1 by Polish classic Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937). “The sound is so magical that people here were completely transfixed,” Szymanowski wrote to his friend, the violinist Paweł Kochański immediately after the work’s premiere in 1922.
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This instrumentally vibrant and colourful piece, filled with “mysterious magic, nocturnal impressionistic scents and bird trills, longing and pain, flights of ecstasy, sublime tenderness and erotic sensuality”, reveals the influence of Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
It is also an essentially compelling personal testimony. “It tells of the love and pain of a man who had to deny his feelings for another man because, at