Teodor Currentzis – UTOPIA

Year: 2023
Country: Austria
Cast: Teodor Currentzis, Utopia
Genre: concert
Runtime: 91 min.
Age: 12+

Teodor Currentzis presents the international festival orchestra Utopia featuring 116 musicians from 30 countries

Outstanding musicians from international orchestras, the independent scene, soloists and chamber musicians come together to work on exemplary works of orchestral literature. All of the compositions exemplify the aesthetic thinking of the time. They are exquisite artefacts for demanding connoisseurs: The latest achievements in the art of orchestration, rousing dance rhythms and frenzied apotheoses stand for themselves. The „l‘art pour l‘art“ principle („art for art‘s sake“) is in the foreground here. In keeping with the orchestra‘s name, all three works thematize a form of the golden age: the ancient Greek pastoral („Daphnis et Chloé“), the Russian fairy-tale world („The Firebird“) and the Austrian imperial court in its heyday („La Valse“).

PROGRAM 
  • Stravinsky: Firebird; 
  • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, La Valse, Boléro