The Phion Orchestra opens the season under the baton of chief conductor Alexei Ogrintchouk with two masterpieces from the classical repertoire.

This year, Iranian composer Aftab Darvishi is composer in residence at Phion. Her performance is “Only Violets Remain,” a work commissioned by the orchestra several years ago. From within the orchestra, Johan Naus, a passionate principal clarinetist with the Orchestra of the East and Phion for over seventeen years, will perform. He will play Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, still the most beautiful and best-known solo concerto ever written for this instrument.

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony is a deeply personal work in which he lays bare his most intense and torn emotions. It begins with a profoundly sad funeral march, culminating in a resigned adagio and a relaxed waltz, and ending in a jubilant triumphal march. All this is based on a theme that recurs in its own way in each movement. Rarely has a composer managed to draw so many diverse emotions from a single melody, transporting the listener throughout the entire symphony. An unparalleled masterpiece as a brilliant opening to a new season of Orchestra Phion.

Program:

Aftab Darvishi – Only violets remain

Mozart  – Concert for clarinet and orchestra (Johan Naus clarinet)

Tchaikovsky – Symphony nr. 5