4th symphony concert

Now it's going round and round! Maurice Ravel characterized his orchestral work"La Valse", which was actually conceived as a ballet and was composed between 1906 and 1920, as "a kind of apotheosis of the Viennese waltz, with which the impression of a fantastic and fatal whirl is associated in my mind's eye". The virtuosity of Sergei Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto is also almost dizzying. The composer himself played the piano part at the premiere in Chicago in 1921 - and prescribed himself three hours of daily practice in preparation for this pianistic rollercoaster ride. The unpredictable wheel of Fortuna, the goddess of fate, is sung about at the beginning and end of Carl Orff's"Carmina Burana". Orff used texts from a song codex from around 1300 preserved in the Benediktbeuren monastery as the basis for a monumental series of solo and choral songs whose archaic style, which particularly emphasizes rhythm, is still fascinating today.

Program:
Maurice Ravel: "La valse". Poème choréographique
Sergei Prokofiev: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C major op. 26
Carl Orff: "Carmina Burana"