Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 - Ravel: La Valse
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Liss
Rachmaninov's Third and Second Symphonies are separated not only by thirty years, but also by the turning point in history that halved the fate of the Russian intelligentsia. When Rachmaninov wrote the Second Symphony in 1906-1907, he was full of creative energy and longing, even though he sought solitude in Dresden in order to feel the breath of his fatherland from afar and to connect his own fate with it. By the mid-1930s, he was already a different person, struggling with the after-effects of his exile fate and summing up his life. In the Villa Senar in Switzerland, he wrote this new work about Russia and himself, which was to become the Third Symphony. The geographical distance was magnified by the temporal distance: an attraction to the beloved past to which there was no return. The Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Dmitry Liss, has performed the Third Symphony repeatedly in Russia and abroad; in 2018 it also played it at the La Folle Journee festival in Nantes. Similarly iconic is the orchestra's interpretation of Ravel's La Valse, which was particularly acclaimed by European critics and opened the doors to the world's major stages.
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
- Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44
- Ravel: La Valse
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