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Friday Concert No. 1

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

Jenaer Philharmonie

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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 ...

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 4 in B major

Rodolfo Halffter Escriche - “Tres Epitafios” (“Three Epitaphs”)

Richard Strauss - Don Quixote, Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Chivalric Character

Participants

Simon Gaudenz

Conductor

Christian Götz

Viola

Henriette Lätsch

Cello

Berit Walther