Week of Events
Segev Plays New Cello Concerto
Conductor Oksana Lyniv leads the U.K. premiere of the Cello Concerto by fellow Ukrainian Victoria Vita Polevá with the London Philharmonic on Feb. 9. Inbal Segev will be the soloist. The program opens with a suite from Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and concludes with Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony. https://lpo.org.uk/event/oksana-lyniv-conducts-dvorak/
Reinhardt Debuts on Minnesota Podium
Two artists are making their Minnesota Orchestra debuts on Feb. 9-10: saxophonist Steven Banks and conductor Ruth Reinhardt. Banks will be the soloist for Billy Child’s Diaspora. Also on the roster are “Šárka,” from Smetana’s Má vlast, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet suite. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/prokofievs-romeo-and-juliet/
Mexican Conductor Makes U.S. Debut
Mexican conductor Iván López-Reynoso makes his U.S. symphonic debut on Feb. 9-10, leading the Milwaukee Symphony in the Ravel orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Pianist Jorge Federico Osorio will play Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto in a program that opens with a suite from the 1936 film Redes (“Nets”) by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. https://www.mso.org/concerts/pictures-at-an-exhibition/
Everything Fair Game for Merz Trio
In a bid to expand the available repertoire for piano, violin, and cello, the Merz Trio has sought out (and in some cases, created themselves) arrangements for their instrumentation. As a result, their Feb. 11-12 program for the Dallas Chamber Music Society includes a wide range of composers, including Hildegard of Bingen, Thelonious Monk, and […]
