Celebrating 102 years of the OSR!
Monday
30.11.2020
20:00 — Victoria Hall, Geneva
Programme
Fabio Luisiartistic director from 1997 to 2002
Valérie Lecoqsoprano
George Frederick Handel
Concerto grosso, op. 3, No 1, in B flat major
Belshazzar, Nitocris's Aria "Regarde, O son..."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony N° 38 in D major KV 504, 'Prague'
Paul Benner
Nox (poems of the sea)
Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
Ronde printanière, for soprano and orchestra
Nicolaï Rimsky-Korsakov
Shéhérazade, symphonic suite op. 35
The music
The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande celebrates 102 years with this gala concert given in 1998 for it's 80th birthday. This concert, recorded at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, takes the programme of the orchestras' very first concert on 30th November 1918, under the direction of its founder, Ernest Ansermet.
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