Event listing: WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln - Jukka-Pekka Saraste - Karita Mattila | Salle Pleyel | Tue 17 Sep 2013 at 20:00

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Salle Pleyel252, rue du faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, Île-de-France, 75008, France

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Programme

Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	Egmont, Op.84: Overture
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)	Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op.67

Performers

WDR Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste	Conductor
Karita Mattila	Soprano

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Jukka-Pekka Saraste lacks romanticism with the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln at Salle Pleyel

Constance Clara Guibert, 20th September

Romanticism found both its source and its end at Salle Pleyel on Tuesday night: Beethoven’s Egmont overture, incidental music for a heroic drama written by Goethe, and his Fifth Symphony, where it has been said that “Fate knocks at the door” – both works composed before 1810 – and Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs, created in 1948, when the last notes of Romanticism in music history were dying slow

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