Ko Iwasaki Performs Dvořák
January 28, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts | Foellinger Great Hall
Join Sinfonia da Camera for our 2023 Premiere!
Continuing our multi-year Beethoven cycle, the program begins with his “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6. Although the problem of representing nature’s beauty in music held challenges and difficulties for Beethoven, this symphony has become a touchstone. On a violin part used at the first performance, a handwritten note, presumably quoting the composer, reads, “Recollection of life in the country—more an expression of feeling than a depiction.”
Following intermission, Sinfonia da Camera is joined by renowned cellist Ko Iwasaki in a performance of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B Minor, widely considered the greatest cello concerto ever written. Composed in the United States, but without the American folk melodies that Dvořák included in his other American works, it presumably betrays the composer’s longing for his homeland and foretells his decision to return home.
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