Experience an evening featuring Stravinsky’s whirling The Rite of Spring, which still astounds audiences more than a century after its riotous Parisian premiere in 1913. The spectacular work shocked the world with its vivid depictions of ritual dances in pagan Russia a perfect pairing for the world premiere of Vladimir Tarnopolsky’s Danse Macabre. Music Director Rafael Payare sets the tone for the performance with Béla Bartók’s dark and mysterious Miraculous Mandarin Suite, and Villa-Lobos’ influences of Bach melded with Brazilian folk elements on display in a selection from his Bachianas brasileiras.Rafael Payare, conductorBARTÓK: Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas brasileiras No. 7Vladimir TARNOPOLSKI: Danse Macabre (World Premiere, SDS Commission)STRAVINSKY: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)This concert is part of The California Festival, a new, statewide music initiative showcasing the most compelling and forward-looking voices in p
San Diego (PRWEB) February 06, 2023 The San Diego Symphony today announced the wide-ranging programs of its 2023-24 Jacobs Music Center season that will
Melodiya and Union of Composers of Russia release Sound Review 14/12/2020
Six digital albums featuring music by contemporary composers are available on digital platforms. Published by Melodiya and the Union of Composers of Russia, Sound Review is the first review of contemporary academic music in the history of Russia in the 21
st century.
The first two albums of Sound Review are a kind of starting point, presenting works of the first and second waves of the Russian musical avant-garde performed by pianist Mikhail Dubov, including Alexander Mosolov, Arthur Lourié, Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arvo Pärt, Valentin Silvestrov, and Vladimir Tarnopolsky. The first two albums contain a lot of phonographic rarities that are almost never heard in concerts, while some others have not been earlier released, including the works by the early XX century composers Nikolai Obukhov, Gavriil Popov, Leonid Polovinkin, and our contemporaries, such as Hexagram by Vladimir Martynov, Dipty