Name: Ekstase
Start: 2024-04-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-04-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Kölner Philharmonie

Organization

Conductor

Elim Chan

Pianist

Benjamin Grosvenor

Piano

Orchestra

Gürzenich - Orchester Köln

Kölner Philharmonie

Ekstase

Cologne

Germany

Ekstase: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, op. 26 Prokofiev,S (+2 More)

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Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

Tristan and Isolde

Symphony No. 4, op. 54 ("The Poem of Ecstasy")

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Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

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Seien wir ehrlich: Unser üblicher Alltag ist nicht gerade von emotionalen Extremen bestimmt. Weder beruflich noch privat geht es in der Regel sonderlich dramatisch, geschweige denn orgiastisch zu. Dann doch wenigstens ein Konzert, das sich von einem Höhepunkt zum nächsten Ausnahmezustand schwingt!

Vergessen Sie Romeo und Julia. Denn die allergrößte Liebesgeschichte aller Zeiten spielt sich zwischen Isolde und einem Herrn mit Namen Tristan ab. Falls Sie gerade kein Zeitfenster für knapp vier Stunden Wagner-Oper zur Verfügung haben: Allein schon Vorspiel und Finale sind berauschend, sehnsuchtsvoll und herzzerreißend genug. Sogar ohne Text.

Mitreißend und expressiv? Unbedingt! Leidenschaftlich und rasant? Auf jeden Fall! All das sollte ein brillantes Tasten-Spektakel ab Werk zu bieten haben. Und selten ist das so fulminant gelungen wie in Sergej Prokofjews 3. Klavierkonzert: Eine völlig entfesselte Mischung aus ohrwurmtauglichen Melodien und ungezügelt wilden Rhythmen.

Was mit einem zart sehnsüchtigen Thema beginnt, endet bei Alexander Skrjabin gut zwanzig Minuten später in einem kaum zu übertreffenden Höhepunkt. »Eine Apotheose!«, ruft der Fachmann gerne bei sowas, »eine spirituelle Verklärung!« Ob da nicht doch eher ganz irdisch Tausende von Endorphinen explodieren? Das müssen Sie am besten selbst entscheiden – falls Sie nach diesem Konzert überhaupt noch klar denken können.

Deutsch

To be frank: our usual everyday life is not exactly governed by emotional extremes. Neither on the job nor in our private lives are things particularly dramatic as a general rule, let alone orgiastic. At least there’s a concert that swings from one high point to the next!

Forget Romeo and Juliet. Because the greatest love story of all time takes place between Isolde and a man called Tristan. Should you not happen to have time at the moment for close to four hours of Wagner opera: simply the Prelude and Finale are intoxicating, yearning and heart-rending enough. Even without text.

Stirring and expressive? Definitely! Passionate and fast-paced? By all means! A brilliant spectacle at the keyboard should have all that from the get-go. And it has rarely been as fulminant as in Sergei Prokofiev’s 3 rd Piano Concerto: a completely unbridled mixture of catchy melodies and uninhibitedly wild rhythms.

What begins in Alexander Scriabin with a gently wistful theme ends a good twenty minutes later in a climax that can hardly be surpassed. »An apotheosis!«, the specialist would exclaim, »a spiritual transfiguration!«  Perhaps it’s more likely, though more prosaic, that thousands of endorphins are exploding? You’ll have to decide for yourself—if after this concert you can think straight at all.

English

Ekstase by Prokofiev, Wagner, Richard, Scriabin, From (2024/2024), Conductor Elim Chan, Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany

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