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VFCO / TEODOR CURRENTZIS / MARC BOUCHKOV
Strauss, Vasks, Mendelssohn
Teodor Curretzis' second long-awaited Verbier Festival concert, alongside violinist Marc Bouchkov in this concert that explores the epic heights and depths of Mendelssohn and Strauss, and the harmonic shimmer of Vasks.
Programme
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864 – 1949)
Metamorphosen
PĒTERIS VASKS (1946 – )
Distant Light, Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra
Interval
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Symphony No. 4 in A major Op. 90 “Italian”
Distribution
- Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
- Teodor Currentzis conductor
- Marc Bouchkov violin
Peteris Vasks composed his Concerto Distant Lights in one unique vast movement. At times nostalgic, at times folkloric, the piece unfolds a restrained poetry, from transparent high notes to the most chaotic and profound basses.
Mendelssohn composed the « Italian » Symphony on his return from a trip to Italy. He amazingly combines his melodic genius with intelligent orchestration, as in the second movement, where the color of the oboe blends with the strings in the middle register to create a song from far away.
Another landscape, another masterpiece: the Metamorphosis were written by Strauss for a string ensemble in response to the desolate vision of a Germany destroyed in the aftermath of the war. Profoundly funereal, the work borrows extracts from Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, which it transforms into never heard before harmonic distortions.”