On tour: Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Wennäkoski

Brand new recorder concerto featuring Lucie Horsch

Lucie Horsch - photo: Kaupo Kikkas

Maxim Emelyanychev leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Grieg’s Suite No. 1 from ‘Peer Gynt’, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 and a new recorder concerto for Lucie Horsch by Lotta Wennäkoski.

The “Pathétique” is widely regarded as the peak of Tchaikovsky's symphonic oeuvre.

Concert programme

  • Edvard Grieg

    Suite No. 1 from ‘Peer Gynt’

  • Lotta Wennäkoski

    recorder concerto (commissioned, world premiere)

  • -- interval --

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'

Performers

About this concert

Pyotr Tchaikovsky probes the depths of the human soul in his Sixth Symphony. The subtitle “Pathétique” indicates its tragic character, which is particularly moving in the slowly fading final episode. Tchaikovsky himself considered the Sixth his best work, but died shortly after its completion. The “Pathétique” is widely regarded as the peak of Tchaikovsky's symphonic oeuvre.

Maxim Emelyanychev pairs Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 with Grieg’s incidental music to Peer Gynt, a work which remains incredibly popular thanks to its irresistible melodies and sounds of nature. The recorder player Lucie Horsch makes a solo appearance with us in a newly commissioned work by the Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski, who previously made a splash here with her flute concerto Soie.

Lotta Wennäkoski’s work was composed with financial support of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust.

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About this concert

Pyotr Tchaikovsky probes the depths of the human soul in his Sixth Symphony. The subtitle “Pathétique” indicates its tragic character, which is particularly moving in the slowly fading final episode. Tchaikovsky himself considered the Sixth his best work, but died shortly after its completion. The “Pathétique” is widely regarded as the peak of Tchaikovsky's symphonic oeuvre.

Maxim Emelyanychev pairs Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 with Grieg’s incidental music to Peer Gynt, a work which remains incredibly popular thanks to its irresistible melodies and sounds of nature. The recorder player Lucie Horsch makes a solo appearance with us in a newly commissioned work by the Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski, who previously made a splash here with her flute concerto Soie.

Lotta Wennäkoski’s work was composed with financial support of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust.

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