Conductor: László Kovács Soloist: Sándor Jávorkai – violin Gábor Kerek: Four Icons Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, op. 44 Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, op. 45 Two of the composers on this programme were deeply influenced by Russian church music, but in many respects, they are distant from each other. The three movement Symphonic Dances is Sergei Rachmaninov’s last work. He completed it in America in 1940 and dedicated to Eugene Ormándy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. We can hear i...n the work characteristic features of Russian music as well as Rachmaninov’s own rich harmonic world and melody and exciting treatment of rhythm. He even calls for a saxophone, for the only time in his oeuvre. The thirty-seven year old composer Gábor Kerek wrote his Four Icons in 2006 to a commission from the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra and its artistic director László Kovács. The composer says that Rachmaninov’s orthodox choral works, which his father frequently listened to, exerted a strong influence on him, but it was the iconostases of the Greek Catholic and Orthodox churches and the liturgical music he heard that set his imagination ablaze. The first picture of this set of four depicts the ascent to heaven, the second is of St George the Dragon Killer, the third shows the Pietà while the fourth is the smile on the face of the Virgin. Between these two works inspired by Russian church music, we’ll hear a popular work from the violin literature, written by German composer Max Bruch in 1878 and dedicated to Pablo de Sarasate. The soloist will be the young and exceptionally talented Sándor Jávorkai who has won first prizes at a number of competitions.
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