Name: Friday Concert No. 1
Start: 2025-09-26T19:30:00
Location: Volkshaus Jena

Simon Gaudenz

Christian Götz

Henriette Lätsch

Berit Walther

Jenaer Philharmonie

Rodolfo Halffter's "Tres Epitafios," premiered in 1954, opens the concert evening with three finely crafted choral movements about Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and Dulcinea. The short "epistolary" is a musical eulogy—not sad, but ironically loving. Halffter portrays Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's literary figures as memory images from a bygone age of the imagination. Richard Strauss also dedicated his 1897 tone poem "Don Quixote" to the "knight of the melancholy countenance"—albeit in a large orchestral format. In the performance, the solo parts are sung by Henriette Lätsch, principal cellist, and Christian Götz, principal viola of the Jena Philharmonic. Between the two works, Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major from 1806 conveys a cheerful, transparent soundscape with a playful character. /JN

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Friday Concert No. 1

Volkshaus Jena

Symphony No. 4 in B major

“Tres Epitafios” (“Three Epitaphs”)

Don Quixote, Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Chivalric Character