Vienna Youth Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestra
Bree Nichols soprano
Dora Deliyska piano
Vienna Youth Choir
Michael Lessky conductor

Programme

Giuseppe Verdi

Aida-Preludio

Hector Berlioz

La mort de Cléopatre

Camille SainT SaËns

Piano Concerto No. 5 "Egyptian"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Thamos, King of Egypt, KV 345

Egypt exerted a great attraction for many generations of European composers.
Mozart created incidental music with choruses and inter-act music, Saint Saëns travelled and set the Orient to music, Verdi did the same - but without ever having travelled there - and Berlioz wrote a fascinating lyrical scene for soprano and orchestra in which he set Cleopatra's final hours - her musings on her love for Antony and the self-infliction of the deadly snake - to music.

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