Gewandhausorchester, Michael Sanderling Dirigent

In the organizer's words:

GREY MIRACLE
The tormented protagonist stumbled into a less than fairytale-like world covered in war. Prokofiev, who had Cinderella spinning in a waltz, had moved back to Russia in 1936 after years in the USA, France
and Germany, he had moved back to Russia in 1936 and completed the ballet score in 1944 in Ivanovo, where conformist artists could create their works in safety.
were able to create. In November 1945, dancers from the Bolshoi Theater danced the premiere. The Neutöner did well to wrap his shrewd sounds in picturesque fairy-tale fabrics, and the
tolerant worker Cinderella even conformed to ideological maxims. Prokofiev was, of course, more interested in the fantastic fantasy creatures of the fairy grandmother, the twelve dwarfs,
four seasons fairies and quarrelsome stepsisters who strut like cats, flutter like flutes and quarrel like bassoons.

WONDERFUL YEARS
The Piano Concerto by Gershwin, who performed the fruit of the summer of 1925 himself with the New York Symphony Orchestra on December 3, 1925 in Carnegie Hall under the direction of Walter Damrosch, who commissioned the work, is 100 years young. Critics criticized the piece as being neither good classical music nor good jazz. Friends were delighted by the uninhibited joy, the garishness and gaudiness, the fun and excitement of life in the here and now.

WUNDERWERK
14 characters from Edward Elgar's here and now are united and immortalized in his variations, including poets and hunters, friends and patrons, actors and bulldogs, the artist himself and his wife.
artist himself and his wife. While everything sounding is constantly changing, one component remains unchanged, namely silent. The miracle of the Wunder-Variations consists of a concealed basic theme. On June 19, 1898, the enigmatic portraits were premiered to great acclaim in London under Hans Richter and significantly increased Elgar's international fame.