Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Alexej Gerassimez / Thomas Guggeis

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Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 11:00

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Dance, language and fantastic images: the three orchestral works on this concert programme by the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra are bursting with creative energy. Ravel wrote »Daphnis et Chloé« as ballet music for Diaghilev’s famous »Ballets russes«. In fact, the composition first celebrated its great success as suites on the concert stage, where its genius is revealed to its full advantage. Ravel had a »great musical fresco painting« in mind for the ancient love story between the two outcast infants,... Read full text

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Musicians

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Alexej Gerassimez	Percussion
Thomas Guggeis	Conductor

Program

Speaking Drums / Vier Gedichte für Percussion und Orchester	Peter Eötvös
Daphnis et Chloé / Fragments symphoniques, deuxième série	Maurice Ravel
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45	Sergei Rachmaninoff

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