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Mahler Chamber Orchestra
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If there is one piece of music that reflects the ideals of the USA, then it is Aaron Copland’s «Appalachian Spring», premiered in 1944, a classic of American music: nature, community, love and religion – with the Shaker song «Simple Gifts» as a glorification of a simple life. Copland’s contemporary Samuel Barber was honoured with the Pulitzer Prize in 1963 for his highly virtuosic Piano Concerto. Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 demands no less of the soloist than Barber’s concerto, who masters these and other tasks with unlaboured virtuosity: the Chinese-born pianist Yuja Wang, a true phenomenon of our time. The splendid Mahler Chamber Orchestra was co-founded by Claudio Abbado in 1997 and continues to live up their founder's legendary status.
Program and cast
Cast
orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Teddy Abrams
piano and conducting: Yuja Wang
Program
Aaron Copland
«Appalachian Spring» Suite for full Orchestra
Samuel Barber
Piano Concerto Op. 38
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Paul Dukas
Fanfare aus «La Peri»
Samuel Barber
«Mutations from Bach»
Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C major op. 26
Grafenegg Festival, Austria
The Grafenegg Music Festival is a new major international Austrian festival for classical music close to Vienna. The annual festival takes place on the grounds of Grafenegg Castle. Two major venues have been built for the festival in the park of the castle: The open-air stage Wolkenturm (capacity 1,730, opened 2007) as well as the new concert hall Auditorium (capacity 1,372, opened 2008).
The artistic director is pianist Rudolf Buchbinder. The festival's program consists of symphonic and chamber music as well as recitals. International guest orchestras are performing as well as the Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra, which serves as orchestra in residence. The first festival started on August, 23rd, 2007 and lasted until September, 9th, 2007.
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