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Stella Motina / Vera Bogdanchikova
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
This evening tells of love with song and piano: passionate and sublime, glowing and ghostly, like the moonlight, like the elves... Love that ennobles and love that destroys. The tragic fate of the geisha, told in »Five Japanese Poems« by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, is heard in the concert, as are the sorrows and joys in Antonín Dvořák’s »Gypsy Songs«. The melancholy of love in Gabriel Fauré’s romances can be experienced and Tchaikovsky sets the passionate Tatyana, who writes a love letter to her hero, to music. All these stories, packaged in music and words, leave no one untouched and fill the evening with a romantic mood.