Utopia | European tour
The musicians have just conducted a full-scale cycle of rehearsals at the Philharmonie Luxembourg and now they are going on tour:
▪ October 5 — Laeiszhalle Hamburg
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▪ October 7 — Wiener Konzerthaus
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▪ October 8 — Wiener Konzerthaus: Chamber Music Concert
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▪ October 9 — Wiener Konzerthaus
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▪ October 11 — Philharmonie Berlin
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The programme of the first Utopia concert encompasses the works exemplify the creative mindset of the first decades of the 20th century. The orchestra will perform Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird suite in the rarely performed third version of 1945 and two compositions by Maurice Ravel: the Daphnis et Chloé suite No. 2 and choreographic poems for orchestra La Valse.
On October 8 the Utopia Chamber Music Ensemble is going to interpret compositions from recent music history. In doing so, it creates a sound that sometimes seems orchestral in a chamber music setting. Impressionist works such as Ravel’s Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, compositions from Stravinsky’s neoclassical and later, serially influenced creative phase as well as Xenakis’ Okho from 1989 are performed. The ensemble takes a look into the 21st century with works by contemporaries Pascal Dusapin and Alexey Retinsky.