TRANSFIGURATION

Jérémie Rhorer, conductor; Nikolai Lugansky, piano.

MUSIC | CLASSICAL MUSIC

Chords like bells that get louder and louder. The beginning of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor is famous. With this grandiose concerto, marked by a fateful tone, the composer, who was born in 1873, wrote himself out of an almost four-year creative crisis. Nikolai Luganski has recorded all four concertos and numerous solo works by his Russian compatriot – with his technical mastery and creative power, he is considered the ideal Rachmaninov interpreter. The fate of the damned "Flying Dutchman", restlessly sailing on a ghost ship, turns for the better in the end. Rising harp sounds announce transfiguration. In contrast to his Sixth, Peter Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, which opens with a fate motif in the clarinets, does not end tragically, but in triumph. Klosters Music ends with trumpet fanfares and timpani rolls!

Program:

Richard Wagner (1813–1883)

Overture to "The Flying Dutchman"

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in C minor op. 18

–Pause–

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Symphony No. 5 in E minor op. 64

Concert:
CHF 65.- Numbered seat

Cast
Jérémie Rhorer, conductor
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen