CONCERTS

Performing with,

Sergei Dogadin, violin
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme
Liadov, Baba-Yaga
Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No.1
Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade

Programme Note
A jealous sultan, his beautiful, intelligent wife, and a thousand and one nights of fantasy. Sounds like a lot to put into music, but in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, a violin becomes the storyteller as the orchestra paints a world of thieves and genies, shattering storms and birds the size of houses. Hear for yourself, as Vasily Petrenko conducts one of the all-time Russian classics, and welcomes Sergei Dogadin – winner of the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition – in Shostakovich’s gripping First Violin Concerto.

Performing with,

Sergei Dogadin, violin
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme
Liadov, Baba-Yaga
Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No.1
Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade

Programme Note
A jealous sultan, his beautiful, intelligent wife, and a thousand and one nights of fantasy. Sounds like a lot to put into music, but in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, a violin becomes the storyteller as the orchestra paints a world of thieves and genies, shattering storms and birds the size of houses. Hear for yourself, as Vasily Petrenko conducts one of the all-time Russian classics, and welcomes Sergei Dogadin – winner of the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition – in Shostakovich’s gripping First Violin Concerto.

Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Emily Sun, violin

Programme:
Carl NIELSEN, Maskarade: Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART, Violin Concerto No.4
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH, Symphony No.11 The Year 1905

West Australian Symphony Orchestra Programme Note:
Shostakovich wrote some of the most devastatingly powerful music in the repertoire. Be transported back to Saint Petersburg in 1905 on the eve of the revolution with his intensely charged Eleventh Symphony, as world acclaimed Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko makes his WASO debut.

We open with the exuberant overture to Nielsen’s rollicking opera, Maskarade, then shine a light on one of Australia’s brightest musical talents. Emily Sun brings a perfect balance of expression and eloquence to Mozart’s Fourth Violin Concerto.

Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Emily Sun, violin

Programme:
Carl NIELSEN, Maskarade: Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART, Violin Concerto No.4
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH, Symphony No.11 The Year 1905

West Australian Symphony Orchestra Programme Note:
Shostakovich wrote some of the most devastatingly powerful music in the repertoire. Be transported back to Saint Petersburg in 1905 on the eve of the revolution with his intensely charged Eleventh Symphony, as world acclaimed Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko makes his WASO debut.

We open with the exuberant overture to Nielsen’s rollicking opera, Maskarade, then shine a light on one of Australia’s brightest musical talents. Emily Sun brings a perfect balance of expression and eloquence to Mozart’s Fourth Violin Concerto.

Performing with,

Peter Moore, trombone
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme
Copland, Appalachian Spring: Suite
George Walker, Trombone Concerto
Prokofiev, Symphony No.5

Programme Note
Moscow, 1945: when Sergey Prokofiev stepped up to conduct the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, he was interrupted by the sound of an artillery barrage. Forged in a time of war and tyranny, Prokofiev said that the symphony embodied ‘the greatness of the human spirit’, and for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Music Director, Vasily Petrenko, it’s one of the supreme 20th-century masterpieces. Tonight, he sets it in a strikingly original context – alongside the primary colours and all-American optimism of Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and the bold, swinging postwar rhythms of George Walker’s Trombone Concerto. Peter Moore (‘magical’ – The Times) is the soloist in this striking contribution to our season-long focus on instruments that don’t always get their due.