»An overwhelming piece of music with extreme emotions, phenomenally crafted, beautiful, wild, and very erotic,« raved the Guardian when the Budapest Festival Orchestra, with its founder and principal conductor Iván Fischer, released a recording of Richard Strauss’s »Joseph’s Legend« in 2018. Indeed, the story of the pious Joseph, who in the palace of the Egyptian court official Potiphar is first seduced and then coldly betrayed by his wife, leaves nothing to be desired musically – not least because Strauss deploys just about everything an orchestra has to offer: huge string and wind sections, several harps, piano, six timpani, castanets and even an effervescent wind machine. A sound spectacle for which the Grand Hall of the Elbphilharmonie provides the ideal acoustics.
PERFORMERS
Budapest Festival Orchestra orchestra
Alina Ibragimova violin
Iván Fischer conductor
PROGRAM
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 61
- Interval -
Richard Strauss
Legend of Joseph, Op. 63
