1. Sinfoniekonzert, Mensch - Mythos - Musik by Gluck, Beethoven, pen 20 spa 2023, Nuo (2023/2023), Dirigentas Enrico Calesso, Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe, Germany

At the opening of the 21/22 concert season, the Würzburg Philharmonic Orchestra is walking the mythological paths of music. The prelude to this is the overture to Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice". The opera, which premiered in 1762, tells the story of Orpheus, who appeases the gods of the underworld with his singing in order to bring his beloved Eurydice back to life, in music that is as gripping as it is touching. Ludwig van Beethoven uses the interplay of complementary principles in the structure of his fourth piano concerto by expanding the established form of the solo concerto to include the symphonic aspect. A seductive encounter between Apollo, the god of music, and the muses of poetry, hymns and dance awaits in Stravinsky's ballet suite to "Apollon musagète" from 1927/28.