Name: Rencontre Charles Dutoit & Yunchan Lim – Mozart & Chopin
Start: 2024-05-15
End: 2024-05-15
Location: KKL Luzern

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Charles Dutoit

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Yunchan Lim

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Rencontre Charles Dutoit & Yunchan Lim – Mozart & Chopin

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Rencontre Charles Dutoit & Yunchan Lim – Mozart & Chopin: Jeu de cartes, K059 Stravinsky (+2 More)

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Jupiter Symphony - Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K 551

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, op. 21

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Stravinsky was an enthusiastic poker player. The stakes are also high in his ballet music, “Jeux de cartes”. Here, cunning and intrigue set the tone of the card game, and a guileful joker keeps disturbing its course. It is all highly amusing and very exciting. A good hundred years earlier, the 20-year-old Chopin wrote his F minor Piano Concerto. It was a contented period of his life. He had successfully completed his studies at the conservatoire and went on to spend happy, stimulating months in Warsaw with his family and friends. This can be heard in his piano concerto, a light-hearted but equally intimate work, with a youthful delight in pianistic virtuosity characterising almost every bar. A further thirty years earlier, on 10th August 1788, Mozart entered his freshly completed Symphony K. 551 into his catalogue of works with the following words: “ Eine Sinfonie. – 2 violini, 1 flauto, 2 oboe, 2 fagotti, 2 Corni, 2 clarini, Timpany, viole e Baßi.” It was to remain Mozart’s last symphony, and only received the epithet “Jupiter” with the romantic notions of the 19th century. It is indeed sublime, perhaps even “godlike” music, a high point in Mozart’s oeuvre, especially in the artfully constructed final movement, which almost overflows with ideas. This is Mozart at his best, exuding a creativity that knows no bounds

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Strawinsky war ein begeisterter Pokerspieler. Und hoch gepokert wird auch in seiner Ballettmusik «Jeux de cartes». Hier, beim Kartenspiel, geben List und Intrige den Ton an, und immer wieder stört ein arglistiger Joker den Ablauf des Spiels. Höchst amüsant, hoch spannend. Gut hundert Jahre zuvor schrieb der 20-jährige Chopin sein f-Moll-Klavierkonzert. Es war eine glückliche Zeit für ihn: Das Studium am Konservatorium lag erfolgreich abgeschlossen hinter ihm, und er erlebte in Warschau im Kreis seiner Familie und Freunde frohe, anregende Monate. Das hört man auch seinem Klavierkonzert an ‒ unbeschwerte, aber ebenso innige Musik, wobei die jungenhafte Lust an virtuosen Tastenspielereien fast Takt für Takt den Ton angibt. Noch einmal gut dreissig Jahre zuvor, am 10. August 1788, trug Mozart seine soeben fertig gestellte Sinfonie KV 551 mit folgenden Worten in sein Werkverzeichnis ein: «Eine Sinfonie. – 2 violini, 1 flauto, 2 oboe, 2 fagotti, 2 Corni, 2 clarini, Timpany, viole e Baßi.» Es sollte Mozarts letzte Sinfonie bleiben, und den Beinamen «Jupiter» erhielt sie erst im romantischen 19. Jahrhundert. Nun ja, um erhabene, vielleicht sogar «göttliche» Musik handelt es sich hier in der Tat ‒ ein Höhepunkt in Mozarts Schaffen. Vor allem im kunstvoll gebauten Finalsatz überschlagen sich die Ideen geradezu: eine schöpferische Stern- stunde, in der Mozarts Kreativität keinerlei Grenzen mehr kennt.

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Rencontre Charles Dutoit & Yunchan Lim – Mozart & Chopin by Stravinsky, Mozart, Chopin, Wed 15 May 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Charles Dutoit, KKL Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

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