Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin & Garrick Ohlsson
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The American conductor Leonard Slatkin has just been named musical director of the National Orchestra of Lyon, and it is at Dijon that he will close his first season in France.
With an illustrious career conducting major orchestras – he regularly conducted Dresden, Leipzig, Amsterdam and Berlin — he is an ideal choice for one of France’s top orchestras. In Dream Waltzes, the American composer Steven Stucky, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2005, poses the question of the role the waltz played in Vienna for composers as different as Schubert, Brahms, Mahler, Richard Strauss and Alban Berg. Built around two quotations from Brahms — one from the Liebeslieder op.52 No. 6 and the other from Valses op.39 — and Strauss’ Rosenkavalier, this piece was premiered by Slatkin in 1986.
The pianist Garrick Ohlsson, former student of the Juilliard School and regular collaborator with the Takács and Tokyo quartets and the Cleveland Orchestra, joins Slatkin and his orchestra for Brahms’ First Piano Concerto, a powerful, impressive and almost intimidating work. From the sombre reverie of a Nordic ballad in the first movement to the contemplation of the adagio, a posthumous homage to Schumann, and to the vigorous and dancing finale, this is a work whose density, virtuosity and rich symphonic writing camouflages – as is often the case with Brahms – a poetry of the purest and most lyrical inspiration.
