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Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor Keri Lynn Wilson
Tanja Sonc violina

C. Debussy: Preludij k favnovemu popoldnevu
A. Dvořák: Romanca za violino in orkester v f-molu, op. 11
C. Saint-Saëns: Introdukcija in rondo capriccioso, op. 28
F. Schubert: Simfonija št 8 v h-molu, D. 759, "Nedokončana"
R. Wagner: Tristan in Izolda: Preludij in ljubezenska smrt
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"I created a religion of secretive nature. The murmur of the sea, the line of the horizon, a gust of wind through the leaves, birdcalls, all of this creates countless impressions in us. And suddenly, without our intervention, one of these memories extends outside ourselves and is expressed in musical language." And this is, according to Debussy’s own words, Prélude a L'aprés-midi d'un faune.
Two virtuoso and unpretentious compositions – Dvořák’s Romance, dedicated to František Ondřičk, and Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, written for Pablo de Sarasate – have enthused both violinists and audiences from the moment of their composition until the present day.
Why Schubert never finished the scherzo and yet wrote a finale for the Eighth Symphony we will never know. The fact is that in spite of having only two movements the Unfinished is one of the most frequently performed in most loved works of the Romantic symphonic repertoire.
“A memorial to the most beautiful dreams”, is how Wagner himself described the Prelude und Lebestod from the opening of Tristan and Isolde, a work that combines love and death, as well as combining the beginning and the end of the entire opera.