Bizet, Saint-Saens and Brahms
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Grace, variety, colour – Bizet’s Suite No. 1 from the incidental music to L’Arlésienne (The Girl from Arles) offers all this and more. Camille Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor dazzles the listener with its stylistic multiplicity, while Brahms’s Symphony No. 3 in F major does the exact opposite: it is an extremely unified piece of music that faithfully represents the composer’s distinctive voice. The fifth concert of the Hungarian National Philharmonic’s Kocsis season ticket will be conducted by the orchestra’s general music director, György Vashegyi. The piano concerto promises to keep us on the edges of our seats as its soloist is the stunningly talented Alexander Malofeev. The Russian virtuoso, who is just 23 years old, returns after his previous successful guest appearance with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Program and cast
Conductor: György Vashegyi
piano: Alexander Malofeev
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Program
Bizet:
L’Arlésienne – Suite No. 1
Saint-Saëns:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Brahms:
Symphony No. 3 in F minor, Op 90
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