Lyrical Legends: Beethoven and Rachmaninoff
Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks
$35.40Yehuda Gilad, Conductor
Aleksandra Melaniuk, Conductor, Salonen Conducting Fellow
Hye Jin Park, Piano
After a fiery overture by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, this concert centers on two of classical music’s greatest voices. While at its core an elegant and charming Classical-era composition, Beethoven’s second piano concerto includes delightful and innovative surprises that harken to his later Romantic roots. Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, on the other hand, is Romantic through and through. This orchestral masterwork is teeming with achingly beautiful melodies, luscious orchestral colors, and vivid emotions.
The runtime for this event is approximately 2 hours with an intermission.
The Colburn Orchestra is generously underwritten by Eva and Marc Stern.