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In the organizer's words:

Pēteris Vasks:

Symphony No. 2

Maurice Ravel:

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in D major (for the left hand)

Maurice Ravel:

"La Valse" Poème choréographique pour orchestre

MDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Dennis Russell Davies | Conductor

Joseph Moog | piano

Ravel's piano concerto was written for the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in the First World War. All the more remarkable is the paradoxical power of sound with which the soloist performs in this virtuoso concerto - with exaggeration, parody and always the impression that two hands are playing the keyboard. La Valse had already portrayed the glorious collapse of society dancing to its doom almost ten years earlier. Pēteris Vasks takes the opposite approach: his response to the loud, garish and chaotic is silence, to which he ultimately returns - his premonition of eternity.

Price information:

Children, trainees and students 9 €