Serenade in Images

Looking at what the Heart can Hear

The Serenade–music wafting to the ears of the beloved on a beautiful night! Serge Minkoff, a filmmaker with a passion for music, and Gábor Takács, a fervidly imaginative conductor, present a production wherein the senses cross and mingle. Opening one’s heart to music means letting one’s emotions come forth. Closing one’s eyes while listening to a musical piece is to wander within a landscape of the mind. Looking at what the heart can hear… Serge Minkoff rose with enthusiasm to the challenge of creating and presenting a succession of filmed sequences that evoke the musical richness of the Serenade by Dvořák through images. Composed of five movements, each preceded by a film introducing the emotional climate of the music to follow, the Serenade illustrates an equal number of moods. The Serenade slowly reveals itself over the unfolding melodies and sequences, alternately lyrical, melancholy or jubilatory…


Programme

Mozart

Divertimento en si bémol majeur, KV 137 (Andante • Allegro di molto • Allegro assai)


Mendelssohn

String Symphony No. 10 (Adagio • Allegro • Più presto)


Bach

Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043 (Vivace • Largo ma non tanto • Allegro)


Starring