Truth and fiction—Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky said that he put his innermost feelings, indeed his entire soul, into his Sixth Symphony, the Pathétique. It is the most sincere of all his works. But he did not want to reveal the program of his last symphony in its entirety. The music builds an arc from initial confidence and zest for action to high-spiritedness and then down to total resignation. In contrast to this, Sinfonieorchester Basel’s chief conductor Markus Poschner has placed two lyrical concert pieces with an exceptionally musical violinist on the program. Julia Fischer plays the passionate fantasy of the violinist and composer Josef Suk, who is still to be discovered in this country. Ottorino Respighi was also a violinist and composer. His “Poema autunnale” takes you on a journey through a soundscape full of autumnal joie de vivre and mysterious foggy moods.
Tickets are CHF 35-110 for adults and half price for youths and students.

Website
sinfonieorchesterbasel.ch/en/concerts/leidenschaftlich/11825

Where
Stadtcasino Basel
Konzertgasse 1
4051 Basel

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