Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s first concert on the podium of the Rai National Symphony Orchestra after his appointment as Principal Conductor of the team: an appointment that Rai Cultura offers on Friday 1 December at 9.15pm on Rai 5. Andrés Orozco-Estrada, born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1977, he made his debut with the Rai Orchestra in May 2022 and in October of this year he began a three-year collaboration that will take him to the Rai podium several times in the season and on tour. He led ensembles such as the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker and the Houston Symphony. From the 2025/2026 season he will become Generalmusikdirektor of the City of Cologne, taking the reins of the Gürzenich Orchestra and the Opera of the German city, one of the most important European cultural metropolises. He usually conducts orchestras such as the Wiener and Berlin Philharmoniker, the Staatskapelle in Dresden, the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig and that of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
At the opening Orozco-Estrada offers the famous Symphony n. 41 in C major KV 551 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart known as “Jupiter”. Composed in a difficult period for the Austrian musician, given by economic, emotional and psychological uncertainties, the piece is characterized by a grandiose and Olympic tone, and concludes the cycle of his last three symphonies, written in just three months between June and August of 1788.
In the second part, Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” are performed, proposed in the orchestration created in 1922 by Maurice Ravel. The occasion of a visit to the posthumous exhibition of drawings by his friend the architect Viktor Hartmann, provided Mussorgsky, in 1874, with the inspiration for a suite of powerfully imaginative piano pieces which, between one Promenade and another in the exhibition rooms , describes ten paintings behind which hide as many states of mind. Ravel, for whom Russian music and in particular that of Mussorgsky exerted a great attraction, was so captivated by the charm of the Pictures that he created an orchestral version which became famous for its colorful richness.
2023-12-01 17:21:19
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