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Concerto for piano, trumpet & strings

Wednesday

14.02.2024

19:30 — Victoria Hall

Series O

Thursday

15.02.2024

19:30 — Victoria Hall

Series S

Friday

16.02.2024

20:00 — Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny

Tour

Grand Mécène

programme

Jonathan Nott
conductor

Martha Argerich
piano

Giuliano Sommerhalder
trompette

Igor Stravinski
Tango, for orchestra

Dimitri Chostakovitch
Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet and strings Op. 35

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major K.551


the music

Born, like our soloist Martha Argerich, in Argentina, the tango has spread all over the planet, becoming one of the most popular forms of music. This did not escape Stravinsky, who composed one as soon as he arrived in the United States. Created in 1941 by Benny Goodman, Stravinsky's Tango, one suspects, does not really follow tradition, but on the contrary takes side roads in an atmosphere created from scratch. The neoclassicism made fashionable by Stravinsky seems to have reached the ears of the young Shostakovich when he composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 to which he added a maliciously parodic solo trumpet. Shostakovich’s mocking tone and unbridled humor reign supreme over this concerto, which over the years has become one of his most performed works. "Immortal and ideal model of the symphony" for Mendelssohn, Mozart's last Symphony No. 41, entitled Jupiterby an English impresario who had a sense of the formula, always amazes with the perfection of its writing. His poetic scope, his dynamism, his knowledge of counterpoint quite simply make him one of the greatest monuments of Western music.



OSR Live

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphonie N° 4 en si bémol majeur op. 60

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 30 July 2020 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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Debussy - Ellington - Strauss | Jonathan Nott, Marc Perrenoud, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande