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Last night's Friday night concert from the NCH Dublin (video will be deleted in 6 days)
I was at the concert last night and it was an epic event and one of the best that I have seen. The sheer energy and the variety of unusual sounds really have to be heard live to be fully appreciated.
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Mihhail Gerts, Conductor (Estonian)
Fiachra Garvey, piano (Irish)
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
A raucous musical pantomime once considered so scandalous it was banned, a masterpiece of melting melodies and virtuosic fireworks for piano and orchestra, a ballet score that turned tradition on its head and provoked a riot as it propelled classical music into the 20th century. Add to this two brilliant young talents: conductor Mihhail Gerts – ‘A name to remember, an artist to follow absolutely’ (ResMusica) and pianist Fiachra Garvey, hailed for his ‘brilliant technical ability [and] mature musicianship’ (Irish Examiner) and you have a ‘must book’ concert.
First performed in 1926, Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin – a tale of a young girl forced by thugs to lure men back to her apartment where they are then robbed – survived outraged voices to become one of the first popular of orchestral showpieces. The Suite fashioned from its original ballet score is as multi-faceted, magnificent and moving as a film soundtrack: abrasive, enigmatic, sinister, lascivious, jazz-laced and dangerously seductive.
A single-movement piano concerto in all but name, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini moves through 24 colourful variations on a theme by Niccolò Paganini to produce a work that showcases orchestra and piano in music as virtuosic, unpredictable and thrilling as a tightrope circus act. Without a safety net. Add in hypnotically beautiful melodies and the result is something unique and unforgettable.
At its 1913 premiere, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring changed the sound of modern music for ever. Raw, earthy and violent – a young maid must dance herself to death to appease the gods – it swept away polite convention with its volcanic primitivism and pulverising rhythms. A century later, it retains its primal power to shock
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/lyric/11086856
I was at the concert last night and it was an epic event and one of the best that I have seen. The sheer energy and the variety of unusual sounds really have to be heard live to be fully appreciated.
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Mihhail Gerts, Conductor (Estonian)
Fiachra Garvey, piano (Irish)
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
A raucous musical pantomime once considered so scandalous it was banned, a masterpiece of melting melodies and virtuosic fireworks for piano and orchestra, a ballet score that turned tradition on its head and provoked a riot as it propelled classical music into the 20th century. Add to this two brilliant young talents: conductor Mihhail Gerts – ‘A name to remember, an artist to follow absolutely’ (ResMusica) and pianist Fiachra Garvey, hailed for his ‘brilliant technical ability [and] mature musicianship’ (Irish Examiner) and you have a ‘must book’ concert.
First performed in 1926, Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin – a tale of a young girl forced by thugs to lure men back to her apartment where they are then robbed – survived outraged voices to become one of the first popular of orchestral showpieces. The Suite fashioned from its original ballet score is as multi-faceted, magnificent and moving as a film soundtrack: abrasive, enigmatic, sinister, lascivious, jazz-laced and dangerously seductive.
A single-movement piano concerto in all but name, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini moves through 24 colourful variations on a theme by Niccolò Paganini to produce a work that showcases orchestra and piano in music as virtuosic, unpredictable and thrilling as a tightrope circus act. Without a safety net. Add in hypnotically beautiful melodies and the result is something unique and unforgettable.
At its 1913 premiere, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring changed the sound of modern music for ever. Raw, earthy and violent – a young maid must dance herself to death to appease the gods – it swept away polite convention with its volcanic primitivism and pulverising rhythms. A century later, it retains its primal power to shock
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/lyric/11086856
