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Giancarlo Guerrero Conducts Ortiz & Tchaikovsky With Alban Gerhardt, Cello

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Giancarlo Guerrero Conducts Ortiz & Tchaikovsky With Alban Gerhardt, Cello: Revolución diamantina Ortiz, G. (+2 More)

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Revolución diamantina

Variations on a Rococo Theme

Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32

Akshay C K

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Acclaimed Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, known for her vibrant instrumental colors and skill with dramatic narrative, wrote her ballet score Revolución diamantina with Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza. The piece explores the powerful Mexican feminist “Glitter Revolution” campaign to highlight an epidemic of violence against women. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wonderfully depicts love’s passion and an infernal whirlwind in his tone poem Francesca da Rimini, inspired by a historic injustice recounted in Dante’s Inferno. Murdered by her husband, Francesca suffers in the second level of hell for her lustfulness, buffeted by an eternal storm. As a contrast, Alban Gerhardt is soloist in the composer’s charming Variations on a Rococo Theme.

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Giancarlo Guerrero Conducts Ortiz & Tchaikovsky With Alban Gerhardt, Cello by Ortiz, G., Tchaikovsky, P. I., From (2025/2025), Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, Boston Symphony Hall, Boston, United States

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