Name: Chamber Symphony: Trifonov Plays Mozart
Start: 2024-06-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-06-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Klein Music Tent

Admin

Aspen Music Festival

Conductor

James Gaffigan

Orchestra

Aspen Chamber Symphony

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Daniil Trifonov

Piano

Chamber Symphony: Trifonov Plays Mozart

Aspen

United States

Klein Music Tent

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271

To See the Sky

Symphony No. 4 in D Minor op. 120

Ayyappa swamy y

Approved

“Even having seen it, one cannot quite believe it. Such is the artistry of pianist Daniil Trifonov,” marveled the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Trifonov has been wowing Aspen audiences with his mesmerizing concert performances and recitals for several seasons. He now brings his unique interpretive stamp to the Mozart concerto that pianist Alfred Brendel called “one of the great wonders of the world.” Opening the program is Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, a shimmering depiction of a lustful satyr’s attempted seduction of sleeping nymphs. Joel Thompson, composer-in-residence at Houston Grand Opera and known for his acclaimed opera The Snowy Day, will be represented by a new work co-comissisoned by AMFS. His first orchestral piece, An Act of Resistance, powerfully and concisely expressed the battle between love and conflict, and was warmly received by the Aspen audience last summer. Following the success of his first symphony, Schumann almost immediately produced a second one. As with many sequels, it didn’t fare as well. Mendelssohn told his friend that his orchestration was too pedestrian, and ten years later, Schumann reworked it, adding heavier orchestration and further unifying the movements as was his original intention. The improvements gave the symphony an intense forward momentum and cohesiveness, inviting the listener to imagine their own narrative as they listen to this passionate and intriguing work. Hear the inaugural concert of this summer’s Aspen Chamber Symphony in this wide-ranging program!

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble