Copenhagen Phil
Chief Conductor / Christoph Gedschold
Soloist / Marianna Shirinyan, piano
Mazzoli / Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Ravel / Piano Concerto
Shostakovich / Symphony No. 11
RAVEL AND SHOSTAKOVICH
An irresistible piano virtuoso. A symphony that sets the 20th century’s most groundbreaking event to music. As well as a newly written orchestral work by America’s most hyped composer. This is the concert you can’t miss!
The formidable Marianna Shirinyan is finally back! This time with Ravel’s irresistible Piano Concerto, which offers both magnificent virtuosity, shimmering impressionism and swinging jazz. With Shirinyan in the lead role, Ravel’s cornucopia of musical ideas sparkles and sparkles.
Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 is like a film score without a film. It is titled The Year 1905 because the imagery of the notes describes the St. Petersburg Uprising, which became the precursor to the Russian Revolution. The magnificent work is an epic movement from dawn on the palace square, where heroic rebels (represented by revolutionary melodies) come into bloody conflict with the Tsar’s bestial guards. Shostakovich’s own father had participated in the uprising the year before he had his famous son. Shostakovich himself said that in his childhood he had heard his father talk about the uprising over and over again.
Composer Missy Mazzoli is the talk of the town in the USA these days, and after last year’s success with the solo concert Dark with Excessive bright, we at Copenhagen Phil are pleased to now present the orchestral work Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) from 2014. Sinfonia was written on commission from the Los Angeles Philharmonic – and is a paralyzing description of the eternal orbits of celestial bodies and spheres.