Name: Romantic Fates: Tchaikovsky’s Towering Fifth
Start: 2024-10-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-10-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Jacobs Music Center

Admin

San Diego Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Antonio Méndez

Violinist

Paul Huang

Violin

Orchestra

Romantic Fates: Tchaikovsky’s Towering Fifth

San Diego

United States

Jacobs Music Center

Romantic Fates: Tchaikovsky’s Towering Fifth: Ruy Blas, op. 95 Mendelssohn (+2 More)

Public

Concert

Ruy Blas, op. 95

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G Minor op.26

Symphony No. 5

Samrat Sen

Approved

Antonio Méndez returns after his terrific SDSO debut last season with a program bursting with overwhelming romantic feelings, surging love-songs and hair-tingling premonitions of melodramatic tragedy and fate. Mendelssohn’s surging and brilliantly orchestrated overture compresses into less than 10 minutes the essence of a play by the French poet Victor Hugo (celebrated author of Les Misérables): a poor poet falls in love with the Queen of Spain, with disastrous consequences for both of them. Max Bruch pours out one melody after another in one of the best-loved violin concertos of all time. And Tchaikovsky thrills us with the tumultuous operatic energy of his Fifth Symphony, complete with doom-laden trumpet-calls, dreamlike dance sequences, rushing strings, and in the slow movement a love song for the solo horn that is one of the sweetest and most heartfelt moments from anywhere in the marvelous composer’s output.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble