Munich Philharmonic: Grieg / Prokofiev / DvořákDalia Stasevska (conductor), Gabriela Montero (piano)
The Finnish-Ukrainian conductor Dalia Stasevska and Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero celebrate their debuts with the Munich Philharmonic with a varied programme.
The Finnish-Ukrainian conductor Dalia Stasevska and Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero celebrate their debuts with the Munich Philharmonic with a varied programme.
Worried that his incidental music for Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt might not be performed outside Norway, Edvard Grieg conceived two orchestral suites, whose success far exceeded his expectations: Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King are among today’s most popular works of classical music. For long-term exile Sergei Prokofiev, success abroad was equally important. His Piano Concerto No 3, with its balanced mix of pianistic flights of fancy, lyrical passages and grotesque undertones, met with great acclaim when it was premiered in Chicago and remains popular to this day. Antonín Dvořák, too, sought to expand his reach abroad with his Symphony No 8. Travelling to the UK to received his honorary degree from the University of Cambridge, he brought this opus – the most “bohemian” of his symphonies – along with him.
Programme
- Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1, Op 46
- Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 in C major, Op 26
- Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No 8 in G major, Op 88
