11.02.2016; 19.00h -Warsaw Philharmonic
The conductor grew up in a musically endowed family, surrounded by such great artists as David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Pavel Kogan, Emil Gilels and Aram Khachaturian. One of his family’s close friends was Dmitri Shostakovich, who used to play four-hand piano pieces with Michail. It is not surprising, therefore, that today Michail Jurowski is one of the leading interpreters of Shostakovich’s music. In 2012, he was awarded the third International Shostakovich Prize by the Shostakovich Gohrisch Foundation.
Throughout his career, Maestro Jurowski successfully conducted both symphony and opera orchestras. He worked with the most acclaimed orchestras across Europe and all over the world, including the Bolshoi Theatre, Komische Oper Berlin, WDR Rundfunkorchester in Cologne, the Opera in Leipzig, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic and Staatskapelle Dresden, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the São Paulo Philharmonic Orchestra and Stavanger Philharmonic Orchestra.
In Warsaw, Maestro Jurowski will conduct Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor.
The outstanding pianist Konrad Skolarski will play the solo part in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. As Prof. Peter Feuchtwanger once said: "When I listen to Konrad Skolarski performing, the golden age of pianists comes to my mind". You are warmly invited to attend!
Emotionalism and the power of pathos
The first part of the evening will feature the most popular of Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18. The piece was completed in 1901. It was premiered that same year in Moscow with the composer as a soloist and his cousin Alexandr Siloti as a conductor. The work was dedicated to Nicolai Dahl, a Russian physician, who had helped Rachmaninoff to overcome his depression. Pathos and virtuosity combined with deep sentimentality are the major qualities of this late Romantic concerto by "the last of the Mohicans of Russian music". In the second part we will hear Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor. The composer started to work on his last symphony in 1887, nine years before his death. Dedicated to "the beloved God", the symphony was intended as a crowning accomplishment of Bruckner’s career as a symphony composer. Bruckner spent the final two years of his life working on the last fourth movement of his symphony. He was still working on the finale on the very day of his death, leaving his masterpiece unfinished.
Performers:
Konrad Skolarski – piano
Michaił Jurowski – coductor
The Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra
Repertoire:
S. Rachmaninow – II Koncert fortepianowy c-moll, op. 18
A. Bruckner – IX Symfonia d-moll, WAB 109
Concert tickets are available at the Warsaw Philharmonic booking office (opening hours: Monday-Saturday 10 am-2 pm and 3 pm-7 pm)
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