ELENA KATS-CHERNIN [*1957]
Dance of the Paper Umbrellas

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART [1756–1791]
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 22 in Es-Dur, KV 482

GRAŻYNA BACEWICZS [1909–1969]
Ouvertüre für Orchester

MAURICE RAVEL [1875–1937]
Ma mère l’oye. Cinq Pièces enfantines

There is a bittersweet note in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music that people have been struggling to describe for centuries. Is it the cheerfulness in the depths? Or the melancholy in the sweetness? Parallel to Don Giovanni/Requiem , the Piano Concerto No. 22 is a work that carries precisely this character and which the Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland takes on: gripping and dance-like - and not a second banal. Elena Kats-Chernin's Dance of the Paper Umbrellas opens the program just as light-footedly as Mozart. Grażyna Bacewicz's fast-paced Overture for Orchestra and Ravel's fairytale cycle Ma mère l'oye round off the evening to great effect. A rollercoaster of (spring) emotions!