Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of VenezuelaGustavo Dudamel (conductor)
Venezuelan star conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela invite you to a South American evening. They will perform works by composers from their home continent – and Tchaikovsky.
Venezuelan star conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela invite you to a South American evening. They will perform works by composers from their home continent – and Tchaikovsky.
An unlikely combination? Not at all: As Dudamel noted in an interview, Tchaikovsky’s music enjoys great popularity in Venezuela. He recalled how, after a concert by his orchestra, many young people in the audience shouted for a specific encore: the last movement of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. “Like at a pop concert, when people shout out their favourites,” said Dudamel.
At this Latin American evening in the Isarphilharmonie, Dudamel will also conduct Tchaikovsky’s pioneering symphony; this psychological drama with the sounds of an unbridled folk festival in the finale. Expect an impassioned interpretation by the spirited conductor, who radiates enthusiasm and joy like no other and presides over some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras: music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, he will direct the New York Philharmonic from 2026.
Programme
Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36
and works from Latin America
