Season opening with Daniel Hope

Soundscapes under the sign of love

Nadia Boulanger was a notoriously strict teacher who didn't let her students get away with anything. Yet she always remained humble before the great miracle of art. To celebrate the opening of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra's season, Music Director Daniel Hope presents a major work by Boulanger's admirer Leonard Bernstein, who said of her: "This woman is incredible, indomitable, a critical spirit of great enlightenment!"

Rarely heard in the concert hall, Bernstein's Serenade for violin, string orchestra, harp and percussion is dedicated to the timeless theme of love. The work was composed in 1953, inspired by his reading of Plato's Symposium. Bernstein's biographer Humphrey Burton observed that
this work "can also be perceived as a portrait of Bernstein himself: grand and noble in the first movement, childlike in the second, exuberant and playful in the third, serenely calm and tender in the fourth, a prophet burdened with ominous feelings and then a jazzy iconoclast
in the final."

Photo: Daniel Hope © Tibor Bozi

Date and time
September 30, 2025, 19:30

Address
Tonhalle Zurich - Great Hall

Organizer
Zurich Chamber Orchestra

Works
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra; Ottorino Respighi: Antiche Danze ed Arie: Suite No. 3, P. 172; Claude Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane for harp and string orchestra, L.103; Leonard Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's Symposion for violin, string orchestra, harp and percussion

Management
Daniel Hope (Music Director)

Soloists
Nicola Mosca (harp)

Admission price
CHF 115 / 105 / 90 / 65 / 40

Contact us
Telephone: +41 (0)44 552 59 00; e-mail: tickets@zko.ch

Website
https://zko.ch/events/saisoneroeffnung-mit-daniel-hope-2025-26/