20:30 hrs. Teatro Degollado
12:30 hrs. Teatro Degollado
PROGRAM 5
Tchaikovsky Cycle, II
"THE FIFTH"
Marco Parisotto, Music Director
Michael Martin Kofler, Flute
Aram KHATCHATURIAN, Flute Concerto (arr. Rampal)
Michael Martin Kofler, Flute
Piotr Ilich TCHAIKOVSKY, Symphony No.5 in E minor, op.64
Following the première of his Fifth Symphony in E minor, Op. 65 in St. Petersburg in 1888, Tchaikovsky wrote in bitter words to his mentor and patron, Mrs. Nadezhda von Meck: “After every performance of this work, I have come to the conclusion that this Symphony is a complete failure, and it upsets me to be conscious of this failure, which signifies the dwindling of my creative powers. The piece so lacks sincerity, it is so long and so generally uninteresting…Could this be the beginning of the end?”
Tchaikovsky found it hard to bear the public’s habit of comparing his newly premiered Fifth Symphony with its predecessor, and many critics seemed certain that this composer’s “symphonic” powers had frankly diminished. With the passing of time, we recognize in Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony not only one of the most ravishingly beautiful symphonic scores of all time, but also a work that clearly epitomizes its author’s emotional essence.
In this, our second program in the Tchaikovsky cycle, we will have the opportunity to hear, for the first time in Guadalajara, virtuoso flautist Michael Martin Kofler, member of the Munich Philharmonic and one of today’s most sought-after European flautists. Kofler will perform the great Jean Pierre Rampal’s arrangement for flute and orchestra of Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto.
Friday, March 6, 2015
8:30 PM, Teatro Degollado
Sunday, March 8, 2015
12:30 PM, Teatro Degollado