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Carnegie Hall Presents

International Festival of Orchestras I Students

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Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 | 8 PM
Saito Kinen Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Kifu Mitsuhashi, Shakuhachi
  • Saito Kinen Orchestra
    Seiji Ozawa, Music Director and Conductor
  • Tatsuya Shimono, Conductor
  • Yukio Tanaka, Biwa

Program

  • TORU TAKEMITSU November Steps for Biwa, Shakuhachi, and Orchestra
  • BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes, including one intermission
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In 1991, the Saito Kinen Orchestra made its US debut—opening the Carnegie Hall season, no less. The New York Times raved: “It quickly showed itself to be a superbly polished group that played a program of Western core classics with genuine passion.” Experience the orchestra’s world-class mastery of classical-music repertoire again with Berlioz’s whirlwind of phantasmagoric Romantic-era passion.

Please note that Mr. Shimono has kindly agreed to conduct the Takemitsu work.
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op.14 (IV. Marche au supplice. Allegretto non troppo)
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa
Deutsche Grammophon Galleria
Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011 | 8 PM
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Nikolai Lugansky, Piano
  • St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
    Yuri Temirkanov, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor

Program

  • LIADOV Kikimora, Op. 63
  • RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2
  • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

  • Encores:
  • RACHMANINOFF Prelude in G-sharp Minor, Op. 32, No. 12
  • ELGAR Salut d'amour, Op. 12
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It’s a uniquely Russian program with an orchestra that “sounds like no other” (The New York Times). It includes Rimsky-Korsakov and his colorful musical recounting of Arabian Nights—a work that set the standard for Russian music for a hundred years after it was composed—and Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto.
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Op. 35 (IV. Festival At Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman.)
New York Philharmonic / Yuri Temirkanov, Conductor
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