English Chamber Orchestra with Michael Collins: with concertos from Mihai Ritivoiu and Michael Foyle at Cadogan Hall, London on Wednesday 16th May 2018

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English Chamber Orchestra with Michael Collins

with concertos from Mihai Ritivoiu and Michael Foyle

Add to my Calendar 16-05-2018 19:30 16-05-2018 21:30 36 English Chamber Orchestra with Michael Collins …all life is an unbroken alternation of hard reality with swiftly passing dreams and visions of happiness…’ – so wrote a world-weary Tchaikovsky as he described his heart-felt Fourth Symphony in a letter to his patroness. If Tchaikovsky’s Romantic symphonic poetry captures ‘hard reality’, then Shostakovich’s exuberant Second Piano Concerto and Prokofiev’s lyrical First Violin Concerto evoke the sweeter, more ephemeral moments of life in this all-Russian programme. Michael Collins makes his debut conducting the English Chamber Orchestra, who are joined by two rising soloists: Mihai Ritivoiu and Michael Foyle. Romanian pianist Ritivoiu won the Dinu Lipatti National Competition in Bucharest in 2010 and was awarded the Gold Medal in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Intercollegiate Competition in 2016. Foyle won the 2016 Netherlands Violin Competition and his acclaimed performance of Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra led to an immediate invitation to give his debut recital at The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Ritivoiu and Foyle are both City Music Foundation Artists. Cadogan Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England

Wednesday 16th May 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Sergey Prokofiev – Violin Concerto no.1, Op.19
Dmitry Shostakovich – Piano Concerto no.2 in F major, Op.102
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Symphony no.4, Op.36

Performers

Mihai Ritivoiu – piano
Michael Foyle – violin
Michael Collins – Conductor

English Chamber Orchestra

Programme Note

…all life is an unbroken alternation of hard reality with swiftly passing dreams and visions of happiness…’ – so wrote a world-weary Tchaikovsky as he described his heart-felt Fourth Symphony in a letter to his patroness.

If Tchaikovsky’s Romantic symphonic poetry captures ‘hard reality’, then Shostakovich’s exuberant Second Piano Concerto and Prokofiev’s lyrical First Violin Concerto evoke the sweeter, more ephemeral moments of life in this all-Russian programme.

Michael Collins makes his debut conducting the English Chamber Orchestra, who are joined by two rising soloists: Mihai Ritivoiu and Michael Foyle.

Romanian pianist Ritivoiu won the Dinu Lipatti National Competition in Bucharest in 2010 and was awarded the Gold Medal in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Intercollegiate Competition in 2016.

Foyle won the 2016 Netherlands Violin Competition and his acclaimed performance of Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra led to an immediate invitation to give his debut recital at The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.

Ritivoiu and Foyle are both City Music Foundation Artists.

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