Program

It is the fifth time that the BPO has been chosen to perform at the prestigious gala concert which, on this occasion, happens to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of The Schuman Plan for Europe .

The concert will open with a fanfare for the occasion, the “Fanfare for Europe”, which was written by the Belgian composer François GLORIEUX. Frederic Chopin’s two piano concertos were composed in his youth, during the time he was still living in Warsaw. The themes in these works reveal great tenderness and were most certainly inspired by the feelings of love and affection a man has for a woman with whom he is in love but will soon leave behind when he moves abroad. The Firebird marks a change in the evolution of Russian Ballets. It was the first time original music was created around a plot written by a choreographer. This ballet reveals Stravinsky as a young composer and marks the start of his long and fruitful collaboration with Diaghilev.