St Magnus International Festival

22 Jun 2016, The Pickaquoy Centre

St Magnus International Festival

19:00 Wed 22 Jun 2016 The Pickaquoy Centre

Inspired by this year鈥檚 Shakespeare anniversary and his most famous pair of characters, the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra presents an evening of orchestral virtuosity on the biggest of themes: love.

Programme

- - Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
  - Ruslan and Lyudmila
- - Sergey Rachmaninov
  - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
- - Michael Tippett
  - The Midsummer Marriage 鈥� Ritual Dances
- - Sergey Prokofiev
  - Romeo and Juliet(excerpts)

Performers

麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra
Alexei Volodin
piano
piano
Alexander Vedernikov
conductor
conductor

Composers

Concert Information

Glinka鈥檚 energetic curtain-raiser is filled with breezy excitement and heroic exuberance and sits in contrast to the highly passionate and richly sonorous second concerto by fellow-Russian Sergei Rachmaninov. The second half of the concert brings extracts from
Prokofiev鈥檚 ballet Romeo and Juliet and Tippett鈥檚 opera The Midsummer Marriage where the themes of love, marriage, death and enlightenment are explored in glitteringly virtuosic orchestrations.

Alexander Vedernikov returns to Orkney having visited previously with the 麻豆社 SO and for this concert he is joined by the extraordinary Russian pianist Alexei Volodin playing the Festival鈥檚 new Steinway Piano for the first time in a concerto performance.

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