Valery Gergiev conducts Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov / Telmondis, Münchner Philharmoniker.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Gergiev, Valeriĭ, 1953- conductor.

Ionițǎ, Andrei, 1994- instrumentalist.

Telmondis (Firm), production company.

Münchner Philharmoniker, instrumentalist, production company.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Orchestral music, Arranged.

Variations (Cello with orchestra).

Suites (Orchestra).

Orchestral music.

Genre:

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 41 min., 17 sec.)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Telmondis - Münchner Philharmoniker, 2017.

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

The Münchner Philharmoniker and its famed music director Valery Gergiev are joined by the young Romanian virtuoso cellist Andrei Ionita for a concert of masterpieces by Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov. British author L. P. Hartley once observed that, "the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." In this concert, composers draw inspiration from the past and transport us to "foreign countries" that are in turns mournful, brilliant, and exotic. The first work on the program, Ravel's six-part Suite for Piano Suite Le tombeau de Couperin (performed here in its orchestral version), uses the illustrious musical traditions of 18th-century France to pay tribute to the composer's six fallen comrades, victims of the First World War. Tchaikovsky's Variations over a Rococo Theme, written for the German cellist Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, pay homage to the music of Haydn and Mozart, two composers held up by Tchaikovsky as the epitome of the Rococo style. The final piece, Rimsky-Korsokov's four-movement symphonic suite Scheherazade, is inspired by the fictional past of the Arabian fairytale collection A Thousand and One Nights, in which the beautiful Scheherazade avoids execution by mesmerizing the Sultan of Baghdad for one-thousand-and-one nights with one-thousand-and-one tales. Andrei Ionita rose to stardom in 2015 when he won first prize at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, a stunning performance that was streamed live on medici.tv and can be viewed at any time on replay.

Contents:

Le tombeau de Couperin / Maurice Ravel

Variations on a Rococo theme, op. 33 / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Music for children, op. 65 / Sergei Prokofiev

Scheherazade, op. 35 / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Participant:

Andrei Ionițǎ, cello ; Münchner Philharmoniker ; Valery Gergiev, conductor.

Notes:

Recorded 2017 Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich, Germany.

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Contains:

Container of: Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937. Tombeau de Couperin; arranged.

Container of: Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Variations sur un thème rococo.

Container of: Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953. Letniĭ denʹ.

Container of: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908. Shekherazada.

OCLC:

1045797397

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