DSO:'Basically Baroque'

Media Release

3 April 2017

Dunedin Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Basically Baroque’ : Saturday 29 April, 5pm and Sunday 30 April, 3pm, King’s and Queen’s Performing Arts Centre

Programme

JS Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe
Respighi: The Birds
JS Bach: Concerto for Oboe D’Amore
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter

The Dunedin Symphony Orchestra’s 2017 season opens with “Basically Baroque” – ‘from Bach to Respighi to Mozart a musical journey’ - conducted by Tasmanian-based Daniel Kossov (concert conductor/violin soloist). Daniel was born in Russia, emigrated to Israel, and graduated from the Curtis Institute and London’s Guildhall School. At the age of 23, he became Australia's youngest ever concertmaster in Perth. He currently conducts in Australia, Israel, Russia and Europe. Appropriately, he will be directing the double Bach concerto from the violin.

The soloist is Robert Orr, NZSO’s Principal Oboeist who is described by the NZ Listener as ‘one of the most eloquent of players’, will perform JS Bachs ‘Concerto for Violin and Oboe’ and Concerto for Oboe D’Amore’ decribed by him as ‘two of my all-time favourite pieces of music’.

S Bach’s music incorporates musical inventiveness, drama, and exquisite beauty – all of which are evident in these two concerti. In Respighi’s The Birds, this 20th century composer freely re-works four Baroque keyboard pieces while depicting of characteristics of four different birds.

Rounding off the concert is Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, which finishes with one of the most extraordinary symphonic movements ever written. Mozart presents and then interweaves no less than five musical themes.

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