Program - Rachmaninoff Performed by Olga Kern

Colorado Symphony 2016/17 Season Presenting Sponsor:

MASTERWORKS • 2016/2017 RACHMANINOFF PERFORMED BY OLGA KERN COLORADO SYMPHONY ANDREW LITTON, conductor OLGA KERN, piano

This Weekend's Concerts are Gratefully Dedicated to Schmitt Music Company Friday’s Concert is Gratefully Dedicated to Magnolia Hotels Saturday's Concert is Gratefully Dedicated to Alan and Judy Wigod

Friday, February 3, 2017, at 7:30pm Saturday, February 4, 2017, at 7:30pm Boettcher Concert Hall

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1 Vivace Andante Allegro vivace — INTERMISSION —

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, "Leningrad" Allegretto Moderato – Poco allegretto Adagio Allegro non troppo

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Program - Rachmaninoff Performed by Olga Kern

Published on Jan 27, 2017

Colorado Symphony

FEB 3-4 | Colorado Symphony Artistic Advisor Andrew Litton conducts piano sensation Olga Kern, known as a master of Rachmaninoff. For her 2017 return to Denver, she takes on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 concluding the all-Russian program. The imposing piece is one of the composer's best-known works, a 75-minute orchestral commentary on the German siege of Leningrad in World War II. After the invasion theme of the first movement, the score moves into a requiem dirge, followed by an even more sorrowful phase -- "After the requiem comes an even more tragic episode," Shostakovich explained. "I do not know how to characterize that music" -- and a thunderous finale that's anything but joyous.

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