Ono: Don Quixote

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Photo courtesy of L'Auditori.

The always spectacular Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero collaborates again with the OBC, this time playing one of the most performed piano concertos of the 20th century, that of Ravel. It is the last great work of the French composer, who presented the premiere in Paris in January 1932. It premiered in the United States three months later, simultaneously in Boston and Philadelphia.

The concert will also include pieces by Richard Strauss and Phillip Glass. The performance will open with the “fantasy concerto”  by Philip Glass, for two solo timpanists and orchestra.

Strauss expressed in music the emotions provoked by the reading of Cervantes' Don Quixote, placing the figure of the protagonist in the voice of the cello, whilst maintaining the drama, irony, tenderness and sense of adventure that are intrinsic to the novel. 

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