Oregon Music Festival: Haydn & Schnittke feat. Lusine Khachatryan, piano

• Lusine Khachatryan, piano

Sergei Prokofiev — Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 "Classical"
Alfred Schnittke — Concerto for Piano and Strings
Franz Joseph Haydn — Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major, H. 1/103 "The Drumroll"

On tonight’s program, center stage belongs to Alfred Schnittke’s superb Concerto for Piano & String Orchestra. Written in 1979, and premiered in Leningrad the same year, it is an unconventional work consisting of a single movement with contrasting sections. Its dramatic quality and the demand on the pianist are beyond words. Playing it tonight is one of Schnittke’s foremost interpreters, the Armenian pianist Lusine Khachatryan.

Flanking Schnittke are two symphonic works, both in Classical style: Sergei Prokofiev’s elegant yet virtuosic Symphony No. 1 “Classical” (written in his typical Neo-Classical style), and Franz Joseph Haydn’s famous Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major.

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The main performing ensemble for the Oregon Music Festival, this group is made up of some of the top professional musicians in the region. Specializing in both executing challenging smaller chamber works and large-scale masterpieces the ensemble exists to bring new life to the very best music of today and yesterday.

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About Lusine Khachatryan, piano

Lusine Khachatryan's successful international concert performances have inspired audiences in such venues as: Alte Oper in Frankfurt/Main; Friedrich-Thiersch-Saal / Kurhaus in Wiesbaden; Herkulessaal in Munich; Liederhalle in Stuttgart; Tonhalle in Zürich; Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; the Louvre, Salle Gaveau and Théâtre des Champes-Élysees in Paris; Wigmore Hall in London; Flagey and Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, National Concert Hall in Dublin; Palau de la Musica in Barcelona; Auditorio Nacional Madrid; Carnegie Hall in New York; Grande Théâtre de Québec; Oscar Peterson Hall in Montreal; Oji Hall in Tokyo and the A. Khachaturyan Concert Hall in Erevan.

http://lusinekhachatryan.com/en/biografie.htm