Timothy Redmond by Fauré, Bruch, Sibelius, Tue 29 Nov 2022, From (2022/2022), Conductor Timothy Redmond, Teatro Comunale, Bolzano, Italy

Pelléas et Mélisande, a symbolist drama written by Maeterlinck in 1892, was one of the most loved works at the turn of the century, and especially by musicians. If the opera that inspired Debussy in 1902 is famous, the first to write music for Maeterlinck's drama was actually Gabriel Fauré, who composed the incidental music for the English representation in 1898. Music that Maeterlinck himself was enthusiastic about , unlike the clashes he had with Debussy (but there, the stone of contention was the choice of the soprano Mary Garden at the expense of Maeterlinck's lover Georgette Leblanc). The music written by Sibelius in 1905 for the Swedish Theater in Helsinki also had great success, in which the drama had almost twenty performances, filling the theater from the first. The highly romantic Concerto n. 1 op. 26 by Max Bruch, written in 1866, a work beloved by audiences and violinists, so popular that Bruch himself admitted in an interview that it would be the only piece to survive him. He wasn't wrong.