What a concert we have in store for you in this week's broadcast of The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Stéphane Denève. The celebrated violinist Gil Shaham is soloist and brings you all the passion, energy, and virtuoso fireworks of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major. Listen on October 31st at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and on November 1st at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2.
In this concert broadcast from 2017 you'll also hear Guillaume Connesson's Maslenitza, a piece inspired by an Eastern Slavic pre-Lenten festival.
It’s in three parts—the outer sections capturing a celebratory Russian carnival atmosphere, and the chorale-like middle section anticipating the solemnity of Lent.
After intermission, it’s a return to France, and that sensuous early example of musical Impressionism (or “symbolism, as Debussy would probably have preferred), Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, based on a Symbolist poem by Stéphane Mallarmé.
To conclude this concert, it's the Poem of Ecstasy, which Alexander Scriabin also referred to as his Fourth Symphony. Like Debussy’s Prelude, this work owes a fundamental debt to the French Symbolist poets, and was performed first in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century.
During intermission, WRTI’s Susan Lewis speaks with violinist Gil Shaham, and Bliss Michelson interviews Maestro Denéve.
PROGRAM:
Connesson: Maslenitza
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major
Gil Shaham, violin
INTERMISSION
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Stéphane Denève, conductor
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