Orchestral colors and contrasts

The Gulbenkian Orchestra returns to Festas de Lisboa with a diverse musical experience under the direction of the young and creative German conductor Clemens Schuldt. The world of cinema is evoked through the infectious energy of One Damn Thing After Another by Doreen Carwithen, the grandeur of Erich Korngold’s The Sea Hawk, which conjures up epic sea adventures, and the moving Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, a melody of melancholic beauty.

The lightness and elegance of Vienna then come to the fore with Johann Strauss II’s Emperor Waltz, followed by two evocative moments from Edvard Grieg’s incidental music to Peer Gynt, the lyrical intensity of the Intermezzo from Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, and a vibrant, rhythmic finale with a March from the Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by C. M. Weber by Paul Hindemith.

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