“There’s an obstinacy about me that’s not easy to get right.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813.
This famous quote from the English author could be the slogan for all three works in the concert. Composed despite the discovery of his incurable deafness, Beethoven’s Second Symphony sounds like an air of joyful revolt. A zest for life is also to be found in Les créatures de Prométhée, a ballet that invites us to imagine the mad project of a humanist titan: to steal fire from the gods and give it to mankind. Finally, Bartók’s dancing Divertimento portrays the musician’s anguish in the early hours of the Second World War.
With 37 musicians conducted by Débora Waldman in partnership with La Maestra.
