Description
London, 1770: Mozart composed the overture to *Mitridate, re di Ponto*, a work brimming with dramatic tension and theatrical flair.
One can already sense that nervous energy, those sharp contrasts and that precocious mastery of the stage that foreshadow the genius to come. With this mature Tchaikovsky, however, the symphony becomes an inner space. The Fifth allows the same motif to recur, obstinately, like a fixed idea that changes its face as it moves through the work. Nothing here is linear or continuous: the energy builds, fractures, rises again, and the final page retains its ambiguity.
The presence of conductor Pavel Baleff, educational and artistic director of the Cannes National Orchestra Academy (2026, 2027 and 2028), lends this confrontation a dimension of transmission, pitting two ways of inventing the symphonic destiny against one another: one through the obvious, the other through struggle.
Pavel Baleff - direction
Académie de l’Orchestre national de Cannes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mitridate, re di Ponto KV 87 / 74a – Ouverture (1770)
Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski - Symphonie n°5 en mi mineur, op. 64 (1888)
The Orchestra Academy receives support from the Caisse des Dépôts
