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7th Symphony concert: A hero’s journey
Mon 6 March 2023
8 pm
Großer Saal
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7th Symphony concert: A hero’s journeyMon 6. March 2023 / 8 pm / Großer Saal
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7th Symphony concert: A hero’s journeyMon 6. March 2023 / 8 pm / Großer Saal
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French cellist Marc Coppey was born only around 10 years after the première of Shostakovich’s 1st Cello Concerto (1959), yet has a special affinity with this work. As a protégé of cello legend Mstislav Rostropovich – the soloist at the première and also the person to whom the concerto is dedicated – he learned the piece at first hand, so to speak.
In 1802/03, Beethoven was confronted with his inexorably advancing deafness. His chosen therapy for dealing with this life crisis was to create a symphonic treatment of the Prometheus theme from his ballet op. 43. Envisioned in this work is the Enlightenment ideal of the creation of a new image of humankind that rejects violence – however, this and the oft-quoted and later retracted dedication to Napoleon are just part of the myth surrounding Beethoven’s “Eroica”.
PROGRAMME
Programme
Unsuk Chin
“subito con forza”
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, op. 107
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55 “Eroica”
Performers
- Marc Coppey
- cello
- Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra
- Nodoka Okisawa
- conductor
Introduction to the concert
Professor Lutz-Werner Hesse provides an insight into the compositions and the creative work of the composer, as well as an overview of the historical context and background in a half-hourly concert introduction on the Mondays of symphony concerts performed by the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra. Soloists or the conductor share interesting facts about the concert programme in dialogue with the audience.
Professor Lutz-Werner Hesse is a composer and the managing director of the Wuppertal department of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
Tickets for symphony concerts on Monday evenings include entrance to these concert introductions at 7.00 pm free of charge. (Please note, spaces are limited.)
The venue for the talk is signposted in the foyer.
Organiser
Kurt-Drees-Str. 4
42283 Wuppertal
info@sinfonieorchester-wuppertal.de
www.sinfonieorchester-wuppertal.de
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The Historische Stadthalle is located in the heart of North Rhine-Westphalia and lies in the centre of Wuppertal-Elberfeld. We are easily reached by public transport. The ICE train station and local bus stops are in the immediate vicinity.
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