10. Philharmonisches Konzert by Dutilleux, Strauss, Dum 25 Iun. 2023, De la (2023/2023), Dirijor Bertrand de Billy, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany

In this concert, the poetry of Charles Baudelaire meets the intellectual world of Friedrich Nietzsche, the music of the "magician of tonal colors" Henri Dutilleux meets the ingenious work of Richard Strauss and two exceptional French artists of our time meet the musicians of the Philharmonic State Orchestra. The cello concerto already reveals in its title "Tout un monde lointain ..." where the poetic aura of the work comes from: It is Baudelaire's world of ideas - "a very distant world, absent, almost extinct" from his volume of poems "Les Fleurs du mal" (" The Flowers of Evil") from which Dutilleux was inspired. The composer precedes each of the five movements with verses from the famous collection as an epigraph. The score of Strauss's Alpine Symphony leads from night into the rising sun, through forests, meadows, undergrowth and thicket - the pure natural idyll of the Alps in its captivating beauty and merciless loneliness. The fact that his last major orchestral work, following Nietzsche's impulses, originally began with Der Antichrist. Eine Alpensymphonie" and is permeated by the overcoming of Christianity and the hope for a better humanity, the composer left unpublished. What remains is the "worship of eternally glorious nature," as Strauss put it in a note in his desk calendar.