The Sound of Destiny

From whisper to destiny

Even before song begins, music here seems to search for its own point of departure. Invitations, by the Canadian composer Isabella Gellis, opens the evening like a tremor: a shifting web of sound in which lines draw close, slip away and finally converge. With Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, the listener’s perspective shifts. The piano takes the lead alone, almost in a whisper, before drawing the orchestra into an exchange of extraordinary freedom, where intimacy constantly opens onto something larger. Finally, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky gives this musical journey its broadest horizon. In his Symphony No. 5, everything broadens, tightens and at times darkens, leading to a finale driven by an inner force that seems unwilling to relent. Three works, three impulses, three ways of shaping sound and gradually building intensity.

Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine Orchestra

Director
Naomi Woo

Piano
Roman Borisov