World premiere

How many forms can fear take? At least two, as this year’s Italy-Serbia concert shows. In Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, fear is a fairy tale: each instrument is a character and the wolf is faced with courage, transforming anxiety into growth. In Ludwig van Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, fear comes from within: tension and conflict with no way out. From fairy tale to tragedy, music reveals and transforms human fear, to better overcome it.

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven, Coriolan, Ouverture Op. 62

Sergej Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67