- Thursday, 02.06.2022, 6.30 p.m. 4th Youth Concert | Education "Spielfeld Klassik"Save date
Youth Concert
Sergei Rakhmaninov
Sergei Rakhmaninov, one of the greatest pianists of all time and one of the most outstanding melodists amongst composers, was born at Oneg, near Novgorod, on 20 March 1873 (1 April New Style), into a musical family. In 1888 Rakhmaninov began to study…
"Die Toteninsel" ( The Isle of the Dead)
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy, born on August 22nd 1862 in St.-Germain-en-Laye, was first a glowing admirer of Richard Wagner, but soon turned away from the German musical tradition to develop a French national musical idiom. The style he arrived at was called…
"Prélude à `L'Après-midi d’un Faune´"
Alexander Skryabin
Alexander Skryabin
With his vision of synæsthetic artistic events, that is to say ones that address the entire system of human sensory perception, Alexander Skryabin, pianist, writer, philosopher and eccentric universal genius, went down in…
"Le Poème de l´Extase" ("The Poem of Ecstasy"), Opus 54
Jukka-Pekka Saraste Conductor
Jukka-Pekka Saraste has established himself as one of the outstanding conductors of his generation, demonstrating remarkable musical depth and integrity. Born in Heinola, Finland, he began his career as a violinist before training as a conductor with…
Malte ArkonaModerator
Lorenzo Viotti had to cancel the concerts scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week due to illness. Jukka-Pekka Saraste is able to step in on short notice and without any changes of program: Wagner's »Siegfried-Idyll«, Rachmaninoff's »Die Toteninsel«, »Prélude à 'L'Après-midi d'un Faune'« by Claude Debussy and »Le Poème de l´Extase« by Alexander Skrjabin.