Skandal

In the organizer's words:

Program
Silvestre Revueltas
Sensemayá R. 48, 67
1937/38
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto in D major op. 35
1937-39/1945
Thomas Adès
Overture to The Tempest
2004
Igor Stravinsky
Le sacre du printemps
1913

Instrumentation
Maria Dueñas Violin
Andrés Orozco-Estrada Conductor

Chaos, whistles, angry heckling and even fisticuffs: When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le sacre du printemps premiered in Paris in 1913, people were outraged by a real scandal. What music, pounding, orgiastic, of almost obscene sensuality! And then there's the theme: a pagan ritual to celebrate spring and fertility, including the sacrifice of a virgin. Shocking! However, it is often the highest waves that calm down particularly quickly. A relatively short time later, it became clear what Stravinsky had hurled onto the stage with incredible force: a piece like a hurricane that - probably like no other in the orchestral literature - opened the door to modernity, indeed possibly made it possible in the first place. It is no wonder that another, related work was completely overlooked: exactly a quarter of a century after Stravinsky's epochal quantum leap, the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas unleashes an archaic, magical and dark snake ritual of the Mayas and Aztecs with a gripping tonal language.

Find out more about our Composer in Residence Thomas Adès

Price information:

Young adults: 9€ tickets (small contingent)