Symphonic concert: The Metamorphosis of Fate

20 allée Nathan Katz

Three post-Romantic works to express a full range of emotions, from Paradise to the farewell song. All three were composed in the 1890s and develop within the same passionate and generous post-Romantic sensibility, these scores might look alike. But that is not the case: Scriabin’s Reverie of Youth touches the heavens, his Piano Concerto carries us with its virtuosity and playful temperament, while Tchaikovsky sinks into the abysses, signing his musical testament: he will die nine days after conducting the premiere in Saint Petersburg, apparently by suicide. After…