Season concerts

In this new Season of Concerts by the Basque National Orchestra we want to draw attention to the human being who creates and transforms. We will focus on the active and responsible person who moves the world through their life experiences, sometimes spiritual and sometimes mundane.

With Mahler and his Symphony No. 3 we will see concepts such as eternity and love, and others such as the religious experience will be signed by Bruckner with his Symphony No. 7. In contrast to this more spiritual side, there are authors who, from disparate universes, give the widest possible palette of colours to private life and the mundane, such as Dutilleux, in his Correspondances, and Richard Strauss, in Aus Italien and in his Symphonia Domestica. Rachmaninoff allows himself to show in his Symphony No. 3 and his Piano Concerto No. 2 how heavily his nostalgia for his homeland weighs. Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky represents the hero's exaltation, which could connect us with Dvorak in his Symphony No. 7 and the vindication of his people's struggle and longing. The concept of identity will find its ultimate expression in Rudi Stephan's opera Die ersten Menschen, which shatters us with a Freudian dissection of human nature after Adam and Eve's expulsion from Paradise.

All these very human concepts use art as an inspirational ally. Their maximum expression will be reached with a work commissioned to Antonio Lauzurika to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Eduardo Chillida. Another important commemoration will be the 75th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights and the first recitation in Basque of the texts that accompany Aaron Copland's work, which has become the anthem of the United Nations.

In this Season –and perhaps always in the Basque National Orchestra– the human being and art are in continuous reflection.