The term ‘world music’ has its own connotations. It refers to a musical genre based on a specific tradition that confronts us with the fascination and difference of the other. But isn’t all music “world music”? In fact, the programme of this concert proposes a journey through other worlds, accompanied by an orchestra. It begins in the streets of Lisbon in the 1920s. It then evokes the Hungarian gypsy communities of 100 years ago. It moves on to the Champs-Elysées, the paradise of the dead in Greek mythology. It continues through the popular Bohemian festivals of the second half of the 19th century. It recreates the delusions of a woman tormented by a macabre dance. It ends with a stylisation of the malambo, a powerful dance practised by Argentinean farm workers.
Age Rating: M/3
DETAILED PROGRAM
Frederico de Freitas – Prelude (about a Lisbon auction) (1926) 6 min.
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) – Dances of Galanta (1933) 15 min.
– I. Slow
– II. Allegretto moderato
– III. Allegro con moto, grazioso
– IV. Allegro
– V. Allegro vivace
Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787) – «Dance of the Blessed Spirits», from the 2nd act of the opera Orpheus and Eurydice (1762) 7 min.
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) – Presto, final piece of the Czech Suite, Op. 39 (1879) 6 min.
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) – Sad Waltz, from the Kuolema Suite, Op. 44/1 (1903) 6 min.
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) – Final Dance of the Estancia ballet (1941) 4 min.
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