Salvation

Melancholy in its most beautiful romantic form dominates the program of the 8th Philharmonic Concert, which Frankfurt's General Music Director Thomas Guggeis will lead the State Philharmonic Orchestra through. The premonition of the imminent death of his son-in-law Richard Wagner and the funeral gondolas of Venice inspired Franz Liszt's piano piece, whose undulating 6/8 time in turn inspired the minimalist Adams to his arrangement. Wagner's five ...