Salzburg Festival 2018: Barenboim conducts Tchaikovsky and Debussy

Synopsis

Special experiences await you at this concert: “It was like a bath of ice, cocaine, and rainbows,” remarked the American writer Henry Miller of the effect made on him by Alexander Scriabin’s orgiastic orchestral fantasy Le Poème de l’extase. No wonder, when it comes to a composer regarded as a visionary who touched on the very limits of madness. Scriabin even saw himself as a kind of Prometheus and declared: “The world lives in my consciousness, as my act of creation.” Claude Debussy also experienced a mystical moment when he conceived his impressionist tone poem La Mer. With this music, he wished not to create a musical depiction of the roaring waves and sparkling water but rather to reflect the impression that the play of the waves awakened within him. Impressive in any case is how Lisa Batiashvili performs the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. According to the Guardian, she is a gifted storyteller, while the Wiener Standard praised her bright violin sound, comparing it to “a ray of light.” PROGRAM Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin; Violin Concerto in D major op. 35; Debussy: La Mer; Skrjabin: Le Poème de l’extase op. 54

Additional Info

• No: A045500930000
• Composer: P.I. Tchaikovsky, Claude Debussy, Alexander Skrjabin
• Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
• Orchestra: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
• Artists: Lisa Batiashvili
• Production year: 2018
• Run time: 01:45:00
• Producers: UNITEL, ZDF/3sat in cooperation with Salzburg Festival
• Format: HDTV 16:9