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Wednesday

08.10.2025

19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva

Series O

Thursday

09.10.2025

20:15 — Théâtre de Beaulieu, Lausanne

Series Lausanne

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Friday

10.10.2025

19:30 — Victoria Hall, Geneva

Series R

Programme

Tugan Sokhievconductor

Sergey Khachatryanviolin

Lili Boulanger
D'un matin de printemps, for orchestra

Piotr Iliytch Tchaikovsky
Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major, Op. 35

Intermission

Serge Prokofiev 
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100

Approximately 1h45 including a 20-minute intermission

The music

Mowed down by a merciless illness at the age of 24, Lili Boulanger remains one of the most promising talents in French music. D’un matin de printemps had a triple genesis for various instruments before the orchestral version presented here. It is a lively dance, quite Debussy-like in its harmonies but also demonstrating astonishing audacity.

It was in Clarens, where it was composed, that Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major was performed for the very first time, in 1878, during a private concert in a version for violin and piano with the composer at the keyboard and his friend Iosif Kotek on the violin.

Officially premiered in Vienna three years later, it was to quickly become a pillar of the violinists’ repertoire. Written according to its author “to glorify the human soul”, Symphony No. 5, Op. 100 is one of Sergei Prokofiev’s most popular works. From start to finish, there reigns a great breath of youth and romantic exaltation.

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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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Jonathan Nott | Sergey Khachatryan

Concerto pour violon et orchestre

Recorded on 30 July 2020 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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