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Post by KTJ on Apr 20, 2015 12:01:48 GMT 10
Over the weekend, I attended Orchestra Wellington's opening subscription concert for 2015. They are spending the entire year performing music by Russian and Soviet composers, with the exception of the piano concerto at the final concert in December, which is being composed by a Wellington-based NZ composer, but in the musical style of the great Russian modernist composers. Over the six subscription concerts throughout the year, all six of Tchaikovsky's numbered symphonies are being performed in numerical order, one at each concert. Michael Houston is also the featured concert pianist performing a piano concerto at each concert. This weekend's performance began with Glinka's Kamarinskaya — a beautiful little piece based on traditional Russian folk tunes. Tchaikovsky regarded this piece as being the kernel of notated Russian romantic music. It was followed by a performance of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.3, widely regarded as the most difficult piano work ever composed. It is seldom performed because of this difficulty. Finally, the concert concluded with a rousing rendition of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.1 — a great way to finish the evening. A few of us headed over the hill from Wairarapa on Saturday afternoon to attend the opening concert in Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre concert hall. We then went to the repeat performance yesterday afternoon in the Masterton Town Hall in Wairarapa. I can't wait for the rest of the concerts in this series....if the first concert was anything to go by, we are in for a real musical treat from Orchestra Wellington this year. • Orchestra Wellington — 2015 Season
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Post by KTJ on Apr 20, 2015 13:37:41 GMT 10
Somehow I suspect the sort of music performed by a symphony orchestra washes right over your head.
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