Charles Dutoit conducts Stravinsky and Rachmaninov – With Lukas Geniušas
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
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Join celebrated Maestro Charles Dutoit, virtuosic pianist Lukas Geniušas, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) for a fiery and virtuosic program of works by Stravinsky and Rachmaninov at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, featuring the Southeast Asian Premiere of Stravinsky’s recently rediscovered work Funeral Song.
This exciting program is bookended with two works by Stravinsky that were closely linked in the eyes of their creator. Stravinsky described his 1909 Funeral Song, a 12-minute long musical commemoration of Rimsky-Korsakov, as “the best of my works before The Firebird", his landmark ballet written for the 1910 season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in Paris. Together, these two works represent the beginning of his rise to international acclaim as a composer. Nestled between Stravinsky’s paired masterpieces is Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, a virtuosic showpiece written for solo piano and orchestra, first premiered with Rachmaninov himself at the piano at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, USA in 1934.
Particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music, the celebrated Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit leads the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a program of his core repertoire, most notably Funeral Song’s Southeast Asian Premiere. In the Rachmaninov, the brilliant Russian pianist Lukas Geniušas takes the stage, a musician described by The Guardian as playing "with a prizewinner’s brilliance, yet with a mature ability to recreate a work's architecture, and an expressiveness that doesn’t overtly draw attention to itself." Don’t miss this special gala concert!
Photo: Charles Dutoit © NicolasBrodard-VerbierFestival2013
