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2nd Vilnius Piano Music Festival

 

Dedicated to the bicentenary of Franz Liszt’s birth and the centenary of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’s death

 

Closing Concert A Legendary Duel

 

Performers:

LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Juozas Domarkas

Soloists:

FRANCESCO NICOLOSI (piano, Italy)

MŪZA RUBACKYTĖ (piano; Lithuania/France/Switzerland)

Conductor ROBERTAS ŠERVENIKAS

 

Programme:

SIGISMOND THALBERG

Casta diva, Cavatine de Norma de Bellini, Op. 70 (transcription for piano)

Grand Caprice sur des motifs de l’Opéra la Sonnambula, Op. 46 (soloist Francesco Nicolosi)
FRANZ LISZT – Malédiction for piano and string orchestra, S. 121/ R. 452 (soloist Francesco Nicolosi)

Interval
FRANZ LISZT – Symphonic poem No. 5 Prometheus, S. 99
HECTOR BERLIOZ – Rákóczi March from La damnation de Faust, Op. 24
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN – Overture König Stephan, Op. 117
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN-FRANZ LISZT – Die Ruinen von Athen for piano and orchestra, Op. 113 (soloist Mūza Rubackytė)

 

The 2nd Vilnius Piano Music Festival’s closing concert A Legendary Duel presents the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Robertas Šervenikas, as well as pianists Francesco Nicolosi (Italy) and Mūza Rubackytė (Lithuania, France, Switzerland). The musicians will perform Sigismond Thalberg’s transcriptions enabling to discover excerpts of Bellini operas through the piano vocabulary – the renowned Casta Diva and Sonnambula fantasy; Liszt’s virtuoso piano composition Malédiction and his visionary symphonic poem Prometheus. As symphonic interludes interspersed between piano works, Berlioz’s March and Beethoven’s Overture will lead to the culmination of the concert – Die Ruinen von Athen, rarely performed Beethoven-Liszt’s composition for piano and orchestra featuring Mūza Rubackytė, the initiator of the Festival.

 

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Part of the VILNIUS PIANO MUSIC FESTIVAL

 

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