Description
Okko Kamu, conductor
Zhang Haochen, piano
HINDEMITH Concert Music for Strings & Brass, Op. 50 (17’)
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (33’)
Intermission
NIELSEN Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 ‘The Four Temperaments’ (32’)
Gold Medallist and First Prize Winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, Zhang Haochen, joins the SSO in Rachmaninov’s most popular piano concerto – a popularity owing, undoubtedly, to its abundance of memorable melodies. It was while drinking beer in New Zealand that Nielsen was inspired to write hisSecond Symphony: on the wall was a comic picture depicting “The Temperaments”, and “one fine day I realized that these shoddy pictures still contained a kind of core or idea and – just think! – even a musical undercurrent!”
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Date: 02 Nov 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall