Richard Strauss 1864 – 1949
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Op. 60

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
Symphony No. 39, in E flat major, K 543

Les Arts és Simfònic continues to extend its presence in the Valencian Community. This season, the OCV, led by its chief conductor, James Gaffigan, visits the auditoriums of Cullera, Altea and Torrevieja. The orchestra performs for the first time the music that Richard Strauss devised for chamber orchestra on the satirical comedy Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière and Lully. Dances, intermezzi, minuets, grouped in a suite, inspired in part by Lully’s original material, but with a neoclassical sonority and Strauss’s personal style. It is followed by Mozart’s Symphony 39, which already sheds light on a romantic character and serves as a prologue to the set of the last three symphonies (numbers 39, 40 and 41) of the Salzburg composer, considered the best corpus of symphonic music of the eighteenth century.