Zauberhaft!

Ten days after the premiere of Handel's ‘Alcina’, which you conducted, sorceresses and magicians are also appearing in the orchestral concert.
Rubén Dubrovsky: The magician Alcina is by no means the end of the story. From the rich ‘magic repertoire’, we have selected music by the much under-appreciated Luigi Cherubini, Antonín Dvořák and Paul Dukas. After two terrifying figures - Medea, the stranger who becomes a murderess, and the midday witch who steals a child - comes the sorcerer's apprentice. And here a comic figure inevitably comes to mind: the Disney film ‘Fantasia’ made this music enormously popular.

The second part then offers `Tastenzauber´.
Rubén Dubrovsky: It is a great pleasure to have the acclaimed English pianist Freddy Kempf on board. He will really heat us up with Gershwin's piano concerto! And we'll already have a little foretaste of the last premiere of the season, in which the ballet and orchestra will devote themselves to Gershwin's ‘An American in Paris’.

Luigi Cherubini Ouverture to »Médée«
Antonín Dvořák »Die Mittagshexe«, op. 108
Paul Dukas »L’apprenti sorcier« (»Der Zauberlehrling«)
George Gershwin Piano Concerto in F-major