Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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Mariss Jansons
conductor
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Alexei Ogrintchouk
oboe
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Music for strings, percussion and celesta
Rodion Shchedrin (*1932)
Oboe Concerto | Territorial première
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Suite No. 3 from "The Firebird"
In fairy-tales, good wins out and love triumphs. That’s what happens in Stravinsky’s “The Firebird,” too, in which Prince Ivan, with the help of the legendary creature of the title, succeeds in freeing the beautiful Princess from clutches of a wicked sorcerer. Béla Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta may be more abstract but is no less stirring in the musical arc it suggests—from the “inferno” of the present to a visionary “paradise.” When Bartók wrote his score in 1936, the global conflagration of war still lay in the future. The Russian Rodion Shchedrin has developed his art independently of fashions and doctrines: He is as comfortable dealing with Russian folklore as with aleatory music. “Like birds that are let out of a cage, one writes as one wishes and as one feels,” he explains with crisp succinctness. Proof thereof can be heard in his new Oboe Concerto, which will receive its premiere in June in Amsterdam.
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