3rd Concert 2019
Berliner Philharmoniker
Dirigent: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Maurice Ravel
Menuet antique (orchestrated by Maurice Ravel)
Claude Debussy
La Mer
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5 in B flar major, op. 100
In the first half of the program, one experiences a key work of French Impressionism:
La Mer by Claude Debussy. The score reflects in all imaginable orchestral colors the impressions of nature that Debussy had collected during a holiday on the English side of the English Channel.
Juxtaposed are Debussy's dazzling timbres in a composition that is committed to the aesthetic maxims of so-called "Socialist Realism": Sergei Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, launched in Moscow on 13 January 1945With his Fifth Symphony, the composer himself wanted to intonate a "song on the free and happy man, his creative powers, his nobility, his inner purity".
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