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SUBSCRIPTION/ORCHESTRA
SUBSCRIPTION/ORCHESTRA
Eun Sun Kim and Stephen Hough ①
- SCHEDULE
- Wed. 10 July 2024, 20:00
- PLACE
- LOTTE Concert Hall
- CONDUCTOR
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Eun Sun Kim
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SOLOIST
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Sir Stephen Hough, Piano
- PROGRAM
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Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
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Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3
- PRICE
- R 120,000 S 90,000 A 60,000 B 30,000 C 10,000
※ Please make sure that your mobile phone is switched off.
※ Please do not applaud between the movements.
Total duration around 100mins(incl. intermission)
※ Please do not applaud between the movements.
Eun Sun Kim and Stephen Hough ①
Wednesday 10th July, 2024 8PM LOTTE Concert Hall
Eun Sun Kim, conductor
Sir Stephen Hough, piano
Program
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Allegro ma non tanto
Intermezzo: Adagio
Finale: Alla breve
------------------- Intermission 15 mins -----------------
------------------- Intermission 15 mins -----------------
Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44
Lento ‒ Allegro moderato ‒ Allegro
Adagio ma non troppo ‒ Allegro vivace
Allegro ‒ Allegro vivace ‒ Allegro (Tempo primo) ‒ Allegretto ‒ Allegro vivace
Total duration around 100mins(incl. intermission)
Sergei Rachmaninoff(1873-1943), Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30(1909)
Someone used the expression "elephantine" to describe the gigantic size of this concerto. Well over a century after its premiere, the number of pianists who can handle this formidable elephant is rapidly increasing, but that in no way means that the difficulty of this huge piece, which often accosts listeners as that of a mammoth or a dinosaur, will decrease. Rachmaninoff's masterpiece, which involves an excruciating pain, the efforts to overcome it, and the process and results of passing through that difficult gate, has had many twists and turns before it can finally convey its true value to us.
The piece was premiered in New York in November 1909, conducted by Walter Damrosch, and the second performance followed shortly thereafter by none other than the great composer and conductor Gustav Mahler. However, perhaps due to the scale of the piece, it took some years for this concerto to become familiar to people's ears. It was not until the 1930s that the piece found a suitable protagonist, and he was a newly risen star pianist from Odessa named Vladimir Horowitz.
Another challenge that this concerto has is its complicated structure. How to build the climax of the piece, which Rachmaninoff called the peak or point, is crucial to an effective interpretation, and in this large and long concerto, a variety of interesting interpretative points can be created depending on the player's tendency and temperament.
Instrumentation
piano solo
2 2 2 2 — 4 2 3 1 — tmp+2 — str
perc: bd, cym, sus cym, sd
Sergei Rachmaninoff(1873-1943), Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44(composed in 1935~36, revised in 1938)
All artists need a refuge to immerse in themselves at some point. The "Ivanovka" was such a place for Rachmaninoff. The Ivanovka, a villa in Tambov Oblast, southeast of Moscow, had a quiet atmosphere ideal for self-absorption, and he produced his major works here from 1890 until just before he left Russia in 1917.
Like other artists during the era who had to live through hard and confusing times, Rachmaninoff had to move to America via Western Europe after the Russian Revolution and the First World War. Suffering from homesickness, he found a new solace similar to the Ivanovka near Lake Lucerne in Switzerland in 1932. Rachmaninoff visited this place every summer to rest and compose until just before the World War II broke out in 1939.
Rachmaninoff began working on his Third Symphony during the summer vacation in 1935, and completed it by the end of June 1936. The symphony was premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski in November of the same year, but received lukewarm reception. What is interesting is that those who were in favor of the radical style felt that this symphony was still leaning toward a repetition of traditional works from the turn of the century, while older fans felt that it was too dissonant and distracting.
The Third Symphony, written about thirty years after the second one in the genre, is more melancholic than the previous work, but contains the consolation for oneself obtained after suffering from long-term homesickness, and the hope and a little optimism that one tried not to forsake even in adversity. The lyricism full of nostalgia shines more as metaphor and symbol rather than being expressly revealed in the forefront, and the sophisticated orchestration is especially smooth in the connecting phrases that appear at the transition of each section.
Instrumentation
3[1.2.pic] 3[1.2.Eh] 3[1.2.bcl(A)] 3[1.2.cbn] — 4 3[1.2.atp] 3 1 — tmp+5 — hp — cel — str
perc: bd, cym, sus cym, sd, tri, tamtam, tambn, xyl
Text by JooYoung Kim / Translation SukHo Lee
Text by JooYoung Kim / Translation SukHo Lee