A4: Giltburg Hraje Rachmaninova by Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Wagner, Richard, do. 14 mrt 2019, Van (2019/2019), Dirigent Heiko Mathias Förster, Dům kultury města Ostravy (Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava), Ostrava, Tsjechische Republiek

Today’s Chief Conductor concert will at first bring to the stage a Moscow native, an Israeli pianist to play the last piano concerto of Sergej Rachmaninoff, a renowned piano player and exile composer in the United States. The history of European music hardly experienced a more grandiose project than The Ring of the Nibelung, the cycle of four mythological operas by Richard Wagner. Besides the tense singing parts, the main source of dramatic tension is the massive malleable stream of the orchestral sound, whose unusually ambitious role was one of the most discussed topics among the 19th century musicians. Even on concert stages it can create extraordinary dramatic tension.