Sydney Symphony
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
conductor
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Hélène Grimaud
piano
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
"Rakastava" ("The Lover"), Op. 14
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
"Manfred" Symphony in B minor, Op. 58 (in four pictures after Byron)
Byron’s dramatic poem “Manfred” deals with forbidden love—namely, incest. The hero of the title feels guilt over the death of his sister. He had a relationship with her—discovering his own image reflected in that of his beloved—and now is shunned by society. Manfred flees into the Alps, wandering restlessly through the mountains, where he is tormented by world-weariness and self-loathing. “You have become your own hell!” Tchaikovsky was all too familiar with the agony of being an outsider. In Davos, in the midst of the mountainous Swiss surroundings, he conceived of a symphony in 1884 that would trace the fate of this Byronic hero through four movements—and with a music of extremes, both exalted and dejected—saturated with feeling yet calculating in its effects. In contrast, “The Lover” from Sibelius’s triptych “Rakastava” is more elegiac and songful in character. Small wonder, since this was music originally intended for male chorus. But the program will also offer a classical oasis in Hélène Grimaud’s interpretation of the Fifth Piano Concerto of Beethoven.
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