NTSO 2023/24 Season
Lan Shui, Rainer Honeck & NTSO

2024/05/17(Fri.)19:30 National Concert Hall

2024/05/18(Sat.)19:30 National Taichung Theater Grand Theater

Conductor: Lan Shui

Violin: Rainer Honeck

Program

S. Barber : Overture to “The School of Scandal”, Op. 5
A. Berg: Violin Concerto
N. Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphonic Suite “Scheherazade”, Op. 35

About 120 min.

Price
NT 300、500、800、1000；1500

Directed：Ministry of Culture
Organizer & Performer：National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
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The lively “Scheherazade” Symphonic Suite by Rimsky-Korsakov is sure to delight the general public, while Barber’s “The School of Scandal” Overture and Berg’s Violin Concerto will appeal to music aficionados.

Rimsky-Korsakov is a member of The Mighty Five that is dedicated to promoting Russian features. Written in 1888, his Symphonic Suite “Scheherazade” reflects the composer’s personal experience in the Russian navy as well as the trends of symphonic poetry and programme music from Western Europe. The composition is melodic, colorful, down-to-earth, and very popular among musicians and audiences alike.

Barber's Overture to “The School of Scandal” is equally approachable and very well-liked. Inspired by the comedy of the same name by the 18th-century Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Barber completed this piece in 1931 – when he was only 21 years old and still studying at The Curtis Institute of Music. Energetic and nimble, the composition does not feel like the immature work of a young composer and thus made Barber famous and established him as a composer.

Berg's Violin Concerto is also from the 1930s but with very different features. Berg put aside his opera Lulu and finished this concerto, which he dedicated “To the memory of an angel”, after learning that the daughter of Alma Mahler and architect Walter Gropius had passed away from polio. This violin concerto also became Berg’s last and most frequently performed masterpiece.

更新日期2023.9.11