This concert combines three very different works: Claude Debussy’s »Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune«, which ushered in musical impressionism with its floating sounds and flowing harmonies, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suite No. 1 with its courtly dances, which were originally heard in Leipzig’s coffee house concerts, and Sergei Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2, a large-scale work full of melodies that was composed after his creative crisis. Bach presents French dance forms with German precision, Debussy creates soundscapes and Rachmaninov spans great melodic arcs between melancholy and energy. Three works, three epochs, three approaches to thinking sound and form.
PERFORMERS
Albert Schweitzer Jugendorchester orchestra
Sebastian Beckedorf conductor
PROGRAM
Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestersuite Nr. 1 C-Dur BWV 1066
Sergej Rachmaninow
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
