Interview
Gianandrea Noseda in conversation with Stanley Dodds Gianandrea Noseda debuts with Strauss and Tchaikovsky
Two visions of death that could not be more different: The old Richard Strauss looks toward his death confidently and calmly with his Vier letzte Lieder – soloist: Camilla Nylund. In his Fourth Symphony, Peter Tchaikovsky reflects uneasily with high emotional pressure an existential crisis that drove him to attempt suicide. With this concert, conductor Gianandrea Noseda made his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Piotr Tchaikovsky wrote his Fourth Symphony in 1877 under the influence of both eventful and drastic personal experiences: at the beginning of the year, he began corresponding with the well-off widow of a railway magnate, Nadeschda von Meck, who in the following years would support his artistic creativity with generous financial support; shortly thereafter, the homosexual composer married an admirer whom he hardly knew. The marriage failed after only a few weeks, leading to a deep depression for the sensitive Tchaikovsky. That he called the menacing fanfare in the introduction to the first movement of the Fourth the “fate” theme has led to the work being interpreted as a “fate symphony”. This multi-layered composition ends the concert programme with which Gianandrea Noseda, born in Milan in 1964, gave his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Noseda programmes Tchaikovsky’s Fourth and Richard Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder alongside music by his fellow Italian Goffredo Petrassi, who died in 2003.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Gianandrea Noseda
Camilla Nylund
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