MDR-Konzerte am Morgen: Zerstreuung

In the organizer's words:

MDR Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Minasi - Conductor

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony in C major Hob. I:60 ("Il distratto")

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin
(with Fugue and Toccata in Gianluca Cascioli's orchestration)

This program by Italian conductor and violinist Riccardo Minasi has a colourful French accent. In addition to Ravel's famous Tombeau de Couperin - an echo of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth - this also applies to Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 60 from 1774. It is essentially incidental music to the comedy "Il distrait" (The Dispersed) by the French playwright Jean-François Regnard, which was performed with great success at the court of Haydn's employer Nicholas I Esterházy. Finally, Claude Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun", with which musical impressionism par excellence is identified, should not be missed.

Concert introduction 10:15 am in the Schumann-Eck