Orf mediathek1/13/2024 The nature of play is to explore infinite possibilities« says Vito Žuraj about his work. ✼reativity means being the creator of one’s own playfulness. The brand-new cello concerto by Vito Žuraj which the young Slovenian composer wrote for Jean-Guihen Queyras, current Artist in Residence of the Gürzenich Orchestra, demonstrates the orchestra’s standard of keeping their finger on the pulse of time. At the same time, this sparkling stroke of genius by the young Richard Strauss is proof of the grand tradition of the Gürzenich Orchestra, having played the world premiere in 1898 under the then chief conductor Franz Wüllner. Richard Strauss took the material of this »Knight Of The Sad Countenance« and created the symphonic poem ✽on Quixote«, a cello concerto in disguise: A solo cello – in our performance played by the orchestra’s Artist in Residence, Jean-Guihen Queyras – impersonates the lovable protagonist proverbially tilting at windmills. In his novel ✽on Quijote de la Mancha«, the Spanish national poet Miguel de Cervantes describes the aberration of an ambitious reader who is sucked into a whirlwind of imagination and who, to the amusement of his oh-so-unpoetic fellow human beings, throws himself into the plot of what he is reading. ![]() ![]() Poetry and Truth – two opposing worlds, but then again just one large cosmos with no clear borders.
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