Name: Sparkling rhythms
Start: 2025-11-22T19:30:00
Location: Esterházy Palace

Antonio Pappano

María Dueñas

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Spanish rhythms, Slavic dances: hardly any other art form can take you across the globe as quickly and convincingly as the characteristic music of different peoples. Transformed and incorporated, as a type or echo, as a quotation or starting point for something new, folk music has been an indispensable source of inspiration for even the greatest composers throughout all eras. This magnificent program, featuring a highly prominent ensemble, makes this clear. Sir Antonio Pappano was Music Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for many years and is now Chief Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. With the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the young but already internationally acclaimed Spanish violinist María Dueñas, he first draws on the enthusiasm for Spain of Édouard Lalo, who wrote a thrilling four-movement violin concerto entitled "Symphonie espagnole" for the virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate. Afterwards, furiant, polka and other dances reign in the fantastic sequence of the “Slovanské tance” by Antonín Dvořák, created after the model of Brahms' “Hungarian Dances”: It gets your feet moving!