Ravenna Festival
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
direttore Charles Dutoit
Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov
Shéhérazade Suite sinfonica op. 35
Igor’ Stravinskij
L’oiseau de feu
The magic of an orchestra and fairy-tale evocation; the gestural expressiveness of sound and an oriental narrating spell: the fabulous visions from One Thousand and One Nights in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Shéhérazade form a direct link to the spontaneity and incomparable originality of Stravinsky’s L’oiseau de feu, which charmed the Parisian audience twenty years later. It was the Russian spirit of St. Petersburg’s musical outskirts breaking into the heart of modern Europe. This is now one of Charles Dutoit’s favourite grounds. After a degree in Maths, Dutoit’s dazzling career brought him under the auspices of Karajan, led him to Montreal for more than twenty years, then to Philadelphia, Tokyo, Paris and now to the rostrum of one of the leading British orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic.
