SAT, 17.08. | 18.30 | Symphony Concert 1
KKL Luzern, Concert Hall
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Denis Matsuev, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Following intermission, the focus turns to the power of fate in Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. The composer believed that fate alone was responsible for the direction of our lives. His personal fate was same-sex attraction, which was criminalized in Tsarist Russia, causing him to fear for his middle-class existence. In the Fourth, the idea of fate is represented by a martial, blaring brass fanfare, which opens the work and comes back several times in the course of the work.
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