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Tchaikovsky Cycle, III: “PATHETIQUE” - OFJ
Primera Temporada 2015 PROGRAMA 6
Tchaikovsky Cycle, III: “PATHETIQUE”
Friday, March 13, 2015
20:30 hrs. Teatro Degollado
Sunday, March 15, 2015
12:30 hrs. Teatro Degollado
EVENT DESCRIPTION

PROGRAM 6
Tchaikovsky Cycle III 
The “PATHETIQUE”

Marco Parisotto, Music Director 
Yevgeny Sudbin, Piano                           

Silvestre REVUELTAS, Sensemayá
Piotr Ilich TCHAIKOVSKY, Piano Concerto no.1, op.23 in B-flat major
     Soloist: Yevgeny Sudbin, piano
Piotr Ilich TCHAIKOVSKY, Symphony No.6, Op.74 “Pathetique” in B minor

 

Tchaikovsky began sketches for his last great score, the Symphony No. 6 in B minor Op. 74, known as the “Pathetique”, in the spring of 1891, during the voyage which delivered him to the United States to conduct the inaugural gala of one of the world’s most celebrated music venues:  Carnegie Hall.   His obsessions, the disgust for life that he felt during that time period, his longings, his nostalgia, his passions…all of these elements are forged at their maximum intensity into the working of this score, which was presented in public for the first time in October, 1893 in St. Petersburg, with the composer at the helm.  Nine days after this premiere, Tchaikovsky was dead.  It was said at the time that he drank a glass of water which had been infected by cholera and the effect was immediate.  Today we know that Tchaikovsky was poisoned…probably suicide, but…maybe murder.  Whatever might have happened, this Sixth Symphony is the key that has the power to unlock our understanding of the emotional depths experienced by its author, who dedicated its score to his beloved nephew, Vladimir Davydov.

 

Alongside this fantastic Symphony, we will delight in the opportunity to hear one of the most beloved piano concertos of all time, also by Tchaikovsky:  his First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major Op. 21, as it springs forth from the adept hands of a native of St. Petersburg, Yevgeny Sudbin, praised by the London press as “potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century” in his OFJ—and Mexican—debut.

 

This third Tchaikovsky Cycle program, which will be presented on the 13th and 15th of March, will open with one of the great masterworks of the Mexican symphonic repertoire, now universally acclaimed, the riveting Sensemayá by Silvestre Revueltas, a work inspired by Cuban author Nicolás Guillén’s  poetic setting of the traditional Afro-Cuban ritual for killing a snake during Mardi Gras festivities.

 

Friday, March 13, 2015 
8:30 PM, Teatro Degollado

Sunday, March 15, 2015 
12:30 PM, Teatro Degollado