Daniele Gatti

Date & Time

Fri, Mar 4, 2022, 20:00

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One subject dominates the ecstatic scores that Daniele Gatti has chosen for this concert: love’s boundless rapture. For Don Juan, the suave ladies’ man, Strauss took his inspiration from a poem by Lenau: “O magic realm, illimited, eternal, / Of gloried women, loveliness supernal! / Fain would I, in the storm of stressful bliss, / Expire upon the last one’s lingering kiss!” Things that flew a thousandfold to Don Juan were denied to the autobiographical hero of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique,... Read full text

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Musicians

Daniele Gatti	Conductor
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Program

“Don Juan”, op. 20	Richard Strauss
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg WWV 96 – Vorspiel 3. Akt	Richard Wagner
Symphonie fantastique (Episode de la vie d’un artiste), op. 14	Hector Berlioz

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