Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse / Sol Gabetta / Tarmo Peltokoski

• Classical Music

»I wouldn’t have become a conductor if I hadn’t discovered the music of Wagner,« admits Tarmo Peltokoski, the 24-year-old rising star who will be Music Director of the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse from September 2024. At his ProArte debut, the Finn, who has been hailed as the »talent of the century«, also conducts a programme that certainly has something to do with Wagner – without a single one of his works being performed. Whether Claude Debussy’s shimmering »Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune«, Ernest Bloch’s oriental-influenced cello rhapsody »Schelomo« – a feast for star cellist Sol Gabetta – or the powerful First Symphony by Wagner fan Gustav Mahler: each of these works deals with Richard Wagner in its own way. A home game »around the corner« for Tarmo Peltokoski.

PERFORMERS

Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse orchestra

Sol Gabetta violoncello

Tarmo Peltokoski conductor

PROGRAM

Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

Ernest Bloch
Schelomo

- Interval -

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 in D major, »Titan«