Musical Journeys with Freddy Kempf at the Theatre - Mall of the Emirates

Musical Journeys with Freddy Kempf at the Theatre - Mall of the Emirates

Date: 1st March 2022

Musical Journeys

SOLOIST
Freddy Kempf

CONDUCTOR
Anton Lubchenko

The South-Ural Symphony Orchestra returns to the Symphonic Middle East Festival, this time performing under the baton of Russian conductor Anton Lubchenko. Featuring the participation of Exclusive BIS Records Recording Artist, Third Prize Winner at the 1998 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow, British pianist Freddy Kempf, the evening will start off with a rendition of contemporary composer Alexey Shor’s Travel Notebook, an intimate, poetic work which functions as a musical diary of sorts, with the audience being taken on a musical journey with the composer and transported to far flung corners of the world. The concert, which is being organised SAMIT Event Group and CMDI Group, with the kind support of the European Foundation for Support of Culture (EUFSC), then continues with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2, composed in 1957 on the occasion of his son’s 19th birthday, and characterised by an atypical joviality of tone that has rendered it one of the composer’s most popular pieces. The orchestra shall then round off proceedings after a short break with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, which was the final symphony that Tchaikovsky ever completed, and was premiered to a raucous reception by the composer himself on 28 October 1893, a mere nine days before his demise, thereby making it the last of Tchaikovsky’s works to be premiered in his lifetime.

‘Piano music for the ears’

1) A. Shor - Travel Notebook
2) D. Schostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102
-- Intermission --
3) Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74