MIKKO FRANCK
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
April 27th 2024 · 7.00 pm
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MIKKO FRANCK
Richard Strauss 1864 -1949
Vier letzte Lieder
Final scene of Capriccio
Tod und Verklärung, opus 24
Elsa Dreisig, soprano
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
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Finnish conductor Mikko Franck, Music Director of
the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, is one of the most
acclaimed conductors of our time. He regularly works with major
orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony. A
composer who often features in his programmes and recordings is
Richard Strauss. And it is Strauss who is the subject of his first
concert at the Palau de les Arts. The evening includes the final
scene of the opera Capriccio, and before that the
composer's last work, the Vier Letzte Lieder, a cycle of
captivating expressive beauty and overwhelming lyricism: songs to
nature, love, life and death, given voice here by the soprano Elsa
Dreisig. The composer already had a presentiment of his end, and in
the tone poem Death and Transfiguration evokes the theme of
transfiguration written in his youth, which presents death as a
life lived to the fullest.
