The American-Korean conductor Holly Hyun Choe and the cellist Luka Coetzee, winner of several prestigious international competitions, invite us on a journey where classicism, lyricism and reasoned modernity meet.
The American-Korean conductor Holly Hyun Choe and the cellist Luka Coetzee, winner of prestigious international competitions such as the famous Pablo Casals Prize and a soloist of note on European stages, invite us on a journey where classicism, lyricism and reasoned modernity meet. Placed under the tutelage of a fully mature Mozart, still influenced by the Don Giovanni he had just completed, this programme opens with the Concerto for string orchestra by the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz. Written in 1948, this work, marked by clear counterpoint and striking rhythmic energy, is rooted in a neoclassicism of rare intensity that places the composer among the major figures of her time.
Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 is more introspective. The composer's sharp writing deploys taut lines in which the cello oscillates between rough melancholy and bursts of irony. All the ambiguity of this score is revealed, in turn incisive and meditative, right up to the implacable coda that closes the work in on itself like a trap.
Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 is more introspective. The composer's sharp writing deploys taut lines in which the cello oscillates between rough melancholy and bursts of irony. All the ambiguity of this score is revealed, in turn incisive and meditative, right up to the implacable coda that closes the work in on itself like a trap.
