Karina Canellakis conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra: Wagner & Sibelius

Date & Time

Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 20:15

Venue

Het Concertgebouw, Main Hall (Amsterdam)

Richard Wagner championed the larger than life. In Tristan und Isolde, he aims his telescope at a young couple in love. Their passion is too great for this earthly world, resulting in extremely sensual music. The passion embodied by Sibelius’s only Violin Concerto is more restrained. It is not a typically virtuoso work, but rather a dream journey through a mysterious orchestral landscape. The refined and sensitive violinist Augustin Hadelich is our guide in this performance.Karina Canellakis has saved the... Read full text

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Musicians

Concertgebouw Orchestra
Karina Canellakis	Conductor
Augustin Hadelich	Violin

Program

Violin Concerto in d minor, op. 47	Jean Sibelius
Vorspiel und Liebestod	Richard Wagner
Le poème de l'extase	Alexander Skrjabin

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