Conductor: Ion Marin Soloist: Robert Cohen – cello Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain Prokofiev: Concertino for Cello and Orchestra, op. 132 (orchestrated by Dmitri Kabalevsky) Dvořák: Silent Woods (Klid), op. 68, No. 5 Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor (“Organ”), op. 78 The concert fantasy that Mussorgsky wrote in 1867, Night on the Bare Mountain was never performed in his lifetime. It will be heard in Rimsky-Korsakov’s popular arrangement of 1886. For Prokofiev, his encounter i...n 1948 with the young Mstislav Rostropovich was hugely influential and it spurred him to write a number of cello works, including the incomplete Concertino. He was able to finish the introduction to the first movement and the development section as well as the second movement, thus it was relatively easy for Rostropovich to finish it. Its soloist this evening will be Robert Cohen who at the age of twelve made his debut at the London Royal Festival Hall. While still a teenager he recorded Elgar’s Cello Concerto and this recording established his international reputation. He works regularly with great conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti and Simon Rattle. Saint-Saëns composed his Symphony No. 3, frequently known as his “Organ Symphony” at the peak of his career in 1886. The composer described it as being for “orchestra with organ”, alluding to the fact that the orchestra is supplemented not only by piano (for two and four hands) but also by the mighty queen of instruments. Born in Romania and now living in Switzerland, Ion Marin began his international career in Vienna where from 1987 to 1991 he was Resident Conductor at the Staatsoper. He is now regularly invited to conduct at the leading music theatres, but is also a much welcome guest with symphony orchestras, including Berlin, London and Israeli Philharmonic as well as Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra.
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