Philharmonia Orchestra: Karabits at Royal Festival Hall

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Karabits at Royal Festival Hall

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 20 May 2010 7:30pm

Kirill Karabits

conductor

Gil Shaham

violin

Bernstein

Overture, Candide

Barber

Violin Concerto

Prokofiev

Suite, Romeo and Juliet

Also this evening :

Music of Today: Georg Friedrich Haas

Prokofiev’s score for his ballet of Romeo and Juliet was originally deemed undanceable by the authority of the Bolshoi Theatre, who commissioned the ballet. Despite Prokofiev’s revisions the company still initially rejected the work, which was eventually premièred in 1938 and was later taken up by the Kirov Ballet. Just a year later, Samuel Barber completed his Violin Concerto, which was officially premièred in 1941. The final movement, an extremely fast ‘moto perpetuo’, was also rejected by its original intended performer as unplayable: it sees the woodwind and brass pursue the frenetic solo violin all the way to the finish line.