Wednesday, October 29, 2003 20:00
Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium
300
Conductor: Bramwell Tovey
Mischa Maisky, cello
Programme:
???? R. Wagner: Tannhauser Overture
???? R. Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, op. 129
???? H. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14
Mischa Maisky, a native of Latvia, made his U.S. concert debut in 1973 ¡X after which an anonymous admirer gave him an 18th-century Montagnana cello upon which he still performs today. The only cellist to have studied with both Gregor Piatigorsky and Rostropovich, Maisky is an enthusiastic and dedicated performer of chamber music and a regular guest at Gidon Kremer¡¦s Lockenhaus Festival.
Schumann¡¦s Cello Concerto, composed in 1850, is a bold, gorgeous concert piece full of rich, shifting harmonies and countermelodies, and energetic dialogue between cello and orchestra.
Berlioz was one of the first Romantic composers who helped usher an era that would characterise much of 19th century individualistic artistic expression. The shape of his ¡§Fantastic¡¨ Symphony is entirely determined by the story behind the work¡K often very graphically told. Towards the end of the Symphony, our hero, as he faces the guillotine, sees the ghost of the young woman he has murdered...
Concert in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hector Berlioz (b. 1803)
Duration: approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes, including one interval
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