1st symphony concert

The inaugural concert of the new General Music Director Levente Török evokes the magic of new beginnings. In The Wand of Youth, Edward Elgar looks back 40 years and dresses melodies he had sketched as a teenager in magnificent orchestral colours. In his Partita, John Rutter pays musical tribute to the heroes of his youth: Maurice Ravel, William Walton and George Gershwin. Lili Boulanger, in turn, was only 24 years old when she wrote her final orchestral work, D’un matin de printemps. Although already seriously ill, she filled this short orchestral piece with the carefree atmosphere of a spring morning. Finally, Maurice Ravel’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé presents a breathtaking sunrise and captivates with its seemingly inexhaustible impressionistic palette of colours.