MARVEL·TCHAIKOVSKY
SUZHOU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2023-24 OPENING CONCERT
2023.09.02（SAT）19:30
SCAC Grand Theatre
Conductor CHEN Xieyang
Violin LAO Li
TCHAIKOVSKY Polonaise and Waltz
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
*Program is subject to change
NOTICE TO AUDIENCE
1.DURATION Approximately 97 minutes with a 15-min intermission. 2.SUGGESTED AGE 8 and above. 3. Minimum Height For Children :1.3m (Jinji Lake Concert Hall). Except For Performances Specially Arranged For Children.
Maestro CHEN Xieyang takes the helm to open Suzhou Symphony Orchestra’s new season with his acclaimed interpretations of the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky poured all his expertise in depicting human emotion into his orchestral works, often melodically rich and full of spine-tingling drama. And what better piece to start with for the new season than The Polonaise and Walt from EUGENE ONEGIN Op. 24 ? In some sense, The Polonaise and Walt is party music, something at which Tchaikovsky excelled and which he composed with unfailing verve and invention in his ballets, operas, and even from time to time in his symphonies and suites. Suzhou Symphony Orchestra then summons Fate with its rendition of the forceful Fourth Symphony. The whole Symphony is a no-holds-barred struggle between a composer who lived by his feelings and a universe that he was convinced was out to destroy him. ‘One’s whole life is just a perpetual traffic between the grimness of reality and one’s fleeting dreams of happiness’, the composer wrote. This is music that pulses with electricity, and it is surely one of the symphonic works that our Maestro CHEN is best at. In the hands of the superb violinist LAO Li, Tchaikovsky’s hugely popular Violin Concerto will positively blaze with colour. When the composer wrote the piece by the shores of Lake Geneva in 1878, the same year he finished his Fourth, he was surrounded by people he loved—and you can tell from the music. All in all, a soul-stirring Tchaikovsky feast.
