Departure - Marie Jacquot & Yulianna Avdeeva

With an evening full of sonic magic and visionary power, conductor Marie Jacquot celebrates her inaugural concert with the WDR Sinfonieorchester. The program arcs from the ethereal prelude to Wagner’s opera »Lohengrin« via Chopin’s Piano Concerto in F minor to the vividly pictorial tone poems of late Romanticism: »Andromède« by the Irish-French composer Augusta Holmès and »Le Poème de l’extase« by the Russian Alexander Scriabin. This dramaturgy unfolds its magnetic pull – featuring the exceptional pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, once winner of the renowned International Chopin Competition in Warsaw.