Raquel García-Tomás is this season's composer in residence; her work Las constelaciones que más brillan offers a luminous glimpse of the cosmos, with high-pitched sounds of stars and low-pitched sounds of nebulae, and with Ravel as an inspirational light. Szymanovsky, the most important Polish composer after Chopin, evolves from impressionism to folk music in the manner of Stravinsky; one example is the Violin Concerto No. 2 of 1933, an explosion of joy despite the sadness of his personal and political life. Difficult was also the life of Berlioz, the embodiment of the romantic ideal, exalted and temperamental, portrayed in his Symphonie Fantastique. Written for a huge orchestra, unthinkable at the time, it unfolds as a succession of biographical orchestral movements: in the fourth movement the orchestra is heard cutting off his head.

Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Alena Baeva, violin
Raquel García-Tomás: The constellations that shine brightest
Karol Szymanovski: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2, op. 61
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14.

With the participation of the EAEM student body.

In addition:
CONVERSING WITH... Baldur Brönnimann
Mozart Hall, 19:45h