Santtu Conducts Sleeping Beauty Philharmonia Orchestra & Santtu-matias Rouvali

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a:
• 1 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Introduction - La fée des Lilas (Arr. for Orchestra by Santtu-Matias Rouvali) 04:37
• 2 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 1, No. 6, Valse (Arr. for Orchestra by Santtu-Matias Rouvali) 04:16
• 3 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 1, No. 8, Adagio – Pas d’Action (Arr. for Orchestra by Santtu-Matias Rouvali) 05:52
• 4 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 2, No. 15a, Pas d’Action – Scène d’Aurore et de Désiré (Arr. for Orchestra by Santtu-Matias Rouvali) 05:15
• 5 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 2, No. 15b, Pas d’Action - Variation d’Aurore (Arr. for Orchestra by Santtu-Matias Rouvali) 01:08
• 6 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 2, No. 17, Panorama (Arr. for Orchestra by Santtu-Matias Rouvali) 02:50
• 7 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 3, No. 24, Caractère – Le chat botté et la chatte blanche (Arr. for Orchestra by Santtu-Matias Rouvali) 01:54
• 8 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 3, No. 28d, Grand pas de deux – Variation No. 1, Désiré (Arr. for Orchestra by Santtu-Matias Rouvali) 01:07
• 9 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 3, No. 28e, Grand pas de deux – Variation No. 2, Aurore (Arr. for Orchestra by Santtu-Matias Rouvali) 01:58
• 10 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 3, No. 28f, Grand pas de deux – Coda (Arr. for Orchestra by Santtu-Matias Rouvali) 01:18
• 11 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66/66a: Act 3, No. 30b, Apotheose (Arr. for Orchestra by Santtu-Matias Rouvali) 03:40
• Total Runtime 33:55

Info for Santtu Conducts Sleeping Beauty

Fairy godmothers good and evil, a lovely princess doomed to die on her sixteenth birthday, a handsome prince who will wake her with a kiss – Sleeping Beauty has all the ingredients of a classic fairytale.

The story has been told and re-told since the fourteenth century, but in 1890 Tchaikovsky gave it one of its most popular incarnations, as a ballet. Our Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, renowned for his affinity with ballet music, conducts some of the most well-loved passages, including the curse of the evil fairy Carabosse, the Garland Waltz and Rose Adage at Princess Aurora’s sixteenth birthday party, the hunting party where we meet the Prince, and the grand ‘happily ever after’ finale.

Gil Shaham, a violinist admired not only for his flawless technique but for his warm stage presence, joins us in Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. A violinist himself, Dvořák poured all his skill and a characteristic dash of Czech soul into this masterpiece of the violin repertoire. A rich and colourful first movement leads to a gloriously lyrical Adagio, and an exuberant finale full of dancing, syncopated melodies.

To whet our appetites for the violin concerto, Santtu has chosen his favourites from among Dvořák’s lively and memorable Slavonic Dances.

Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor
Philharmonia Orchestra
Gil Shaham, violin

Santtu-Matias Rouvali
will succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen as Principal Conductor in the 2021/22 season. He continues as Chief Conductor of Gothenburg Symphony, and retains his longstanding Chief Conductor position with Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra close to his home in Finland.

His international profile continues to flourish, with debuts this season with New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in wide-ranging repertoire. In New York he conducts the New York premiere of Bryce Dessner’s Wires, and at the Concertgebouw he conducts the world premiere of a new piece by Theo Verbey, as well as Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. In Berlin he is looking forward to performing Ravel’s piano concerto in G minor with Alice Sara Ott, alongside Sieblius Symphony 1.

He has built a loyal following internationally; after successful tour concerts in Vienna with Gothenburg Symphony last season he returns there to conduct the Wiener Symphoniker and Nicola Benedetti. In 19/20 he returns to several orchestras across Europe, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Rouvali’s Gothenburg season opened with a programme featuring Leif Ove Andsnes, the orchestra’s Artist in Residence for 2019/20.

Following last season’s successful tour of Germany and Austria with Alice Sara Ott and Martin Grubinger, Rouvali and Gothenburg Symphony are back on the road in February 2020 touring Japan. Together with violinist Fumiaki Miura and pianist Mari Kodama, they perform works by Shostakovich, Beethoven and Sibelius across eight major cities from Fukuoka to Tokyo.

Rouvali also accompanied the Philharmonia Orchestra on a tour to the Canary Islands in January 2020, performing in Gran Canaria and Tenerife as part of the Canary Islands Festival. In London, highlights of his Philharmoni season include extracts from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Prokofiev’s Symphony 5 as well as Sibelius Symphony 5, alongside soloists Nikolay Lugansky, Behzod Aburaimov and Nemanja Radulovic.

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