First concert in which the work of the resident composer of the Palau de la Música and the Orchestra of Valencia will be performed in the Season 24-25, the Japanese Toshio Hosokawa. his Concerto for violin and orchestraGenesis it was written precisely for Veronika Eberle on the occasion of the birth of the violinist's son. The score musically shapes the life journey of a human being. Eberle, sponsored with only 16 years by Sir Simon Rattle, performed for the first time in Valencia in 2023 in an extraordinary Concert held at the Llotja, with enormous success due to its precision and emotional capacity. Hosokawa was born in Hiroshima ten years after the first atomic bomb had exploded over his city. The composer is an example of harmony and dialogue between continents and cultures, and its aesthetic is nourished both by the European avant-garde and the Japanese tradition. Hosokawa has also stated that, in case of not having devoted himself to the composition, he would have liked to be a singer, to be able to interpret them lieder by Franz Schubert, a composer whom he admires and is part of his references, including the dialogue with nature that Schubert knew how to embody in his work as a good romantic. The Gran was composed after the popular and original "Unfinished". It was called "Great", to differentiate it from his sisena symphony, composed in the same tone. Fervent admirer of Beethoven, Schubert quotes in Finale d'esta Ninth Symphonyreasons for the Novena beethoveniana.
Veronika Eberle, violin
VALENCIA ORCHESTRA
Alexander Liebreich, director
Toshio Hosokawa Concerto for violin and orchestra “Genesis”
Franz Schubert Symphony no. 9 a C major, D 944 “The Great”
