Name: Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra “gershwin & Ravel”
Start: 2017-08-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-08-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Elbphilharmonie

Admin

Elbphilharmonie & Laeiszhalle Hamburg

Conductor

Christoph Eschenbach

Orchestra

Schleswig Holstein Music Festival Orchestra

Others

Schleswig Holstein Music Festival Chorus

Instrumentalist

Christopher Park

Piano

Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra / “gershwin & Ravel”

Hamburg

Germany

Elbphilharmonie

Grosser Saal

Public

Concert

Daphnis et Chloé

Piano Concerto in F

La valse

Simon Samuel

Approved

George Gershwin described the final movement of his own Concerto in F as an »orgy of rhythms«. There is also something orgiastic about Ravel’s »La Valse«, an ambiguous requiem to a century that had begun to fall apart. With these two pieces, Ravel’s choreographic symphony »Daphnis et Chloé« – his longest and most ambitious work –, and more than 200 performers, this will be an evening to remember.

Putting a concerto by George Gershwin alongside two pieces by Ravel is not as odd as it may first appear. Ravel was a big fan of Gershwin’s music and they both shared a passion for jazz. When Ravel toured the US for four months in 1928 the two composers met numerous times, played their work to each other and visited the »Savoy Ballroom« jazz club in Harlem together.

English

Eine »Orgie von Rhythmen« sei der letzte Satz seines Concerto in F, so George Gershwin selbst. Gemeinsam mit Ravels wohl ambitioniertestem und längstem Werk, der choreografischen Sinfonie »Daphnis et Chloé«, sowie über 200 Mitwirkenden kommen an diesem Abend gleich mehrere Superlative zusammen.

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Der Pianist Tzimon Barto musste leider aus persönlichen Gründen absagen. An seiner Stelle wird Christopher Park den Part in Gershwins Klavierkonzert übernehmen. Christopher Park gewann 2014 den Leonard-Bernstein-Award und wurde von der European Concert Hall Organisation 2016/17 in der Reihe »Rising Stars« ausgezeichnet.

Deutsch

Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra / “gershwin & Ravel” by Ravel, Gershwin, From (2017/2017), Conductor Christoph Eschenbach, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany

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