Conductor GUILLERMO GARCIA CALVO
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Les Éolides, FWV 43, C. Franck
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op.22, C. Saint-Saëns
Martina Filjak piano
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Symphony no. 0 in D minor, WAB 100 ‘Die Nullte’, A. Bruckner
1.40 h (w/intermission)
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Based on classical Greek mythology, Les Éolides is a symphonic poem with five thematic parts that follow each other without interruption, composed by César Franck in 1876. It was inspired by an episode of Homer’s The Odyessey contained in a poem with the same name from Lecomte de Lisle’s Poèmes Antiques.
Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Piano Concerto No. 2, Op.22 in just seventeen days during the spring of 1868. Structured in three movements, the first opens with an ample tribute to Bach, which the French composer borrowed as a kind of candenza from a theme discarded by Gabriel Fauré. It was first performed on the 6th of May in Paris at the Salle Pleyel, with Saint-Saëns at the piano and Anton Rubinstein as conductor.
Bruckner repudiated his Symphony no. 0 when asked by Otto Dessoff, permanent conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, where the theme of the first movement was to be found. Probably drafted in 1863, it was finished in 1869, and was considered “not valid, simply an attempt” when he went back to work on it in 1895. It was performed for the first time in the town of Kosterneuburg in Lower Austria on the 12th of October 1924.
