True Crime in Music: Der mysteriöse Tod von Piotr Tschaikowsky

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A concert-talk hybrid for anyone who likes a good mystery with their orchestral music. Presenter Maximilian Maier walks through the disputed circumstances of Tchaikovsky's 1893 death (poisoning or accident?), while the Bergson Phil under chief conductor Jesus Ortega Martinez punctuates the story with the composer's own music, drawn from the Violin Concerto, the Nutcracker, the sixth symphony Pathetique and Romeo and Juliet. It runs about 75 minutes in the Elektra Tonquartier hall, with doors from 19:15. The narration is in German.