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Andris Nelsons & Yuja Wang - The Strauss Project Part II - T01067139061Andris Nelsons conducts one of the world's most storied orchestras in Part II of his Strauss Project, with the brilliant pianist Yuja Wang providing an extra sprinkling of star power. Nelsons launches Part II of The Strauss Project with the work that launched Strauss's career, Don Juan. Witness salacious seductions and deadly duels in his musical portrait of the notorious libertine, before enjoying a humorous homage to his early musical idol, Johannes Brahms. Burleske demands the fiendish technical virtuosity of Liszt, defies convention, and cries out for a pianist to match - and we don't think there's a better fit than the sensational Yuja Wang. A mouth-watering programme is completed by a piece with ‘an unfathomable beauty so awe-inspiring that it terrifies with the same intensity it beguiles' (Gramophone). Immortalised in pop culture by Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Also Sprach Zarathustra opens with a sunrise to end all sunrises and sees the sun set on the Barbican half of Nelsons's Strauss odyssey.Conductor Andris Nelson. Performer Yuja Wang. | |
| 10 May 22 | Barbican Centre, West End :: V371 listing details L01499512718 |
Nelson: The Strauss Project - T01119000305Andris Nelsons conducts one of the world's greatest orchestras in the first of an epic four-concert series profiling Richard Strauss, arguably classical music's most brilliant picture-painter. Strauss once said, 'I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it's a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher'. And it's this mastery of portraying people, places, and encounters both passionate and perilous that makes his music so arresting. So prepare to indulge in the music of Strauss at its most ravishing, neurotic, and bombastic. Be whisked from the opulent splendour of Vienna's golden age via the luscious waltzes of the Rosenkavalier Suite to intense psychodrama in his meticulous musical portrait of the Macbeths. And to crown it all, Strauss's swashbuckling A Hero's Life - a sensationalist self-portrait, a robust riposte to his critics, a loving tribute to his wife, and a fitting close to the first concert in a series set to be the highlight of London's classical year.Conductor Andris Nelson. | |
| 9 May 22 | Barbican Centre, West End :: V371 listing details L01500437447 |
