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Slavonic Night: The MCO in Santiago de Compostela and Grafenegg
The first stop on the tour is the Via Stellae Festival in Santiago de Compostela, where the MCO last performed in 2008 and recorded the highly-acclaimed CD of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Janine Jansen. The second stop is the Austrian city of Grafenegg, where the MCO’s concert will be part of the annual Music Festival Grafenegg. As in the previous year, the MCO will play not only a symphony concert, but also a chamber music concert on the same day (24 July) as part of this summer residence.
The tour’s programme focuses on three Slavic composers whose works were created in a relatively short time span, 1880-1935. Like many composers of the later 19th century, they wrote music that reflected its country of origin by using folk songs, ballads and legends as inspiration. The Russian composer Alexander Borodin, a career chemist and a hobby composer, strove to depict a caravan’s journey to the steppes in his 1880 symphonic poem; his descriptive means included representative tunes for the Central Asian caravaners and their Russian guards. Sergei Prokofiev, also a Russian, used typical folk melodies in his Violin Concerto no. 2 (1935). The third movement features castanets, a surprising musical trip to Spain. Antonin Dvorak, lastly, is often credited with developing an unmistakable national style. Though Dvorak does not directly quote folk melodies in his 8th symphony, the work, like many others by him, is composed in a characteristically Bohemian idiom.
The evenings in Grafenegg and Santiago de Compostela mark the end of the MCO’s 2009/2010 season. The 2010/2011 season will start at the beginning of August with concerts at the LUCENRE FESTIVAL. More information about the performances can be found through the Season Calendar on our website.
The tour’s programme focuses on three Slavic composers whose works were created in a relatively short time span, 1880-1935. Like many composers of the later 19th century, they wrote music that reflected its country of origin by using folk songs, ballads and legends as inspiration. The Russian composer Alexander Borodin, a career chemist and a hobby composer, strove to depict a caravan’s journey to the steppes in his 1880 symphonic poem; his descriptive means included representative tunes for the Central Asian caravaners and their Russian guards. Sergei Prokofiev, also a Russian, used typical folk melodies in his Violin Concerto no. 2 (1935). The third movement features castanets, a surprising musical trip to Spain. Antonin Dvorak, lastly, is often credited with developing an unmistakable national style. Though Dvorak does not directly quote folk melodies in his 8th symphony, the work, like many others by him, is composed in a characteristically Bohemian idiom.
The evenings in Grafenegg and Santiago de Compostela mark the end of the MCO’s 2009/2010 season. The 2010/2011 season will start at the beginning of August with concerts at the LUCENRE FESTIVAL. More information about the performances can be found through the Season Calendar on our website.
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