This is Beethoven - Lviv National Philharmonic

This is Beethoven

Friday 27.10.2023 / 19:00

S.Lyudkevych Concert Hall

150-400

Program

A classical musician with a romantic soul, a composer whose genius has inspired new legends for centuries, a creator of music of joy of brotherhood and struggle against the world. All this is Ludwig van Beethoven. The programme of pieces that would add new colours to the well-known portrait of the composer was prepared by the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Lviv National Philharmonic and the concert soloist, violinist Marko Komonko. This time, the orchestra will perform under the baton of the world-renowned conductor Gudni Emillson.

The concert will start with one of the most atypical for Beethoven’s subjects – the Coriolanus Overture, Op. 62. In this piece, the protagonist, instead of fighting for the freedom of his people, becomes their invader, and the drama ends not with the fanfare of victory, but with the decline and destruction of the hero. In Beethoven’s tales, man often opposes fate, but is it so easy to defeat fate when the composer is on his side?

The evening will continue with one of the finest violin concertos in the history of European music – Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61, which did not meet with public acceptance during the composer’s lifetime. After two unsuccessful premieres, Beethoven even tried to rewrite this concerto for piano and orchestra, but time decided otherwise, bringing the real masterpiece out of the shadows.

The last work of the concert again returns to the contradictions of Beethoven’s personality. The Second Symphony is one of the composer’s most luminous works, written in the year of his greatest despondency – 1802, the year of the Heiligenstadt Testament. No less striking is the performing virtuosity that Beethoven demands of every performer of this symphony. This music demands the highest level of mastery of each of the orchestral parts throughout the work, which will be demonstrated by the Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

 

Artists:

  • Marko Komonko, violin
  • Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra 
  • Gudni Emillson, conductor

Program:

  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
    • Overture “Coriolanus”, op. 62
    • Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major, op. 61
    • Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 36

 

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