A rising new-generation early-music orchestra — a summer of fervor.
Orchestre Avant-Garde, 2nd Concert
Salieri, Overture to the opera Falstaff
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Sinfonia from “Falstaff, ossia le tre burle” (1798)
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 “Eroica,” Op. 55
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
“Sinfonia eroica, composta per festeggiare il sovvenire d’un grand’uomo” (1804)
Conductor: Yusuke Watanabe
Orchestra: Orchestre Avant-Garde
Thu., September 2, 2021 — Doors open 18:30 / Start 19:00
Venue: Shibuya Cultural Center Owada Sakura Hall
Admission: All reserved seats ¥4,000 (students ¥2,500)
Presented by: Orchestre Avant-Garde
Supported by: Japan Beethoven-Kreis
“Orchestre Avant-Garde’s Eroica”
Having frequently collaborated with the choir Majora Canamus Tokyo and earned high praise for performances of sacred choral works, the orchestra has developed into Orchestre Avant-Garde. Aiming to convey the “avant-garde” of its time vividly to the present, the ensemble has set the goal of performing Beethoven’s complete symphonies. Following its enthusiastically received inaugural concert in February 2019, anticipation runs high for a passionate performance of Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”!
Conductor: Yusuke Watanabe
Violin: Yuko Araki (concertmistress), Toshihiko Amano, Rieko Ikeda, Yuko Endo, Azumi Takada, Nao Takahashi, Takuto Takagishi, Shiho Hiromi, Kayo Saito, Yuri Mizutani, Ayaka Yamauchi
Viola: Mina Fukasawa, Mika Akiba, Miho Nakata, Makoto Yamaguchi
Cello: Toru Yamamoto, Ayano Uemura, Masaki Nozu
Double bass: Sakyuhiko Fuse, Yuki Nagata
Flute: Toshiyuki Shibata, Maya Nozaki
Oboe: Masamitsu Sannomiya, Go Arai
Clarinet: Nahoko Mitsue, Ryutaro Toda
Bassoon: Masayuki Okamoto, Tadashi Suzuki
Horn: Keishi Omori, Satoshi Tsukada, Yuta Ono
Trumpet: Hidenori Saito, Toshiyuki Onishi
Timpani: Toru Idete
<Comment from Music Director Yusuke Watanabe>
In 1817, when asked which of his own symphonies he liked best, Beethoven is said to have answered clearly and at once, “The Eroica.” So much so that the composer himself said as much: the Eroica Symphony has reigned to this day as a truly revolutionary work that shattered the conventional framework of the symphony. Complex and bold modulations in abundance, opposing meters, and unrelenting expression that demands instruments be pushed to their limits… this work is nothing other than what Umberto Eco called a “shock of perception.”