Concert Odyssée - Orchestre Pasdeloup

Cast Orchestre Pasdeloup Christian Vásquez, conductor Thomas Enhco, piano Programme Didier Lockwood, Piano Concerto Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1 “Titan” Thomas Enhco is the soloist in the…

Cast

Orchestre Pasdeloup

Christian Vásquez, conductor

Thomas Enhco, piano

Programme

Didier Lockwood, Piano Concerto

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1 “Titan”

Thomas Enhco is the soloist in the Piano Concerto by the celebrated jazz musician who died in 2018, before the “Titan” rings out, a masterstroke laying the cornerstones of the Mahlerian language. Created in 2000 by Frank Braley and the Orchestre National de Lille, the Piano Concerto by the violinist-composer presents itself as his second symphonic work, conceived, in his own words, “like an improvisation”. Mirroring this spontaneous genesis, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1, universally admired today, was the fruit of nearly four years of labour, disrupted by the demands of his career as a conductor. Sketched in 1885, its composition was interrupted by his travels to Prague and then to Leipzig. It was in the latter city that he was at last able to complete the score in spring 1888, describing this final creative surge as a torrent of music pouring out of him.