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Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Majesty
9 February @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm ACDT
Alexander Gavrylyuk’s thrilling performance of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra last October brought the audience to its feet in rapturous applause. Now it’s South Australia’s turn to marvel at his electrifying musicianship. Tchaikovsky’s 1875 masterpiece is bookended by Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony and the Australian premiere of Thea Musgrave’s Rainbow, which has been compared to the music of Danish post-Romantic Carl Nielsen and the French composer Albert Roussel, whose various influences included Romanticism and its Impressionist countermovement, as well as French folk song. Douglas Boyd conducts.
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Be the first in Australia to experience the colours of Thea Musgrave’s Rainbow. The Scottish-American composer’s cinematic music is dotted with ethereal flutes and thunderous timpani, while strings build layers of gripping suspense. Mendelssohn’s spirited Scottish symphony was inspired by the weathered ruins of an old stone abbey, and it’s just as majestic in scale. Tchaikovsky’s stirring Piano Concerto No.1 is your centrepiece – an impressive opening fanfare gives way to soaring melodies, dazzling virtuosic passages, and profound emotional depth.
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