Oregon Music Festival: Elgar & Poulenc
TBA
- Joseph Adam, organ
- Vlad Vizireanu, conductor
Grażyna Bacewicz — Concerto for String Orchestra
Francis Poulenc — Concerto for organ, timpani, and strings in G minor, FP 93
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
The name of Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), a renowned Polish composer and violinist, is not a name recognized in this country—much less heard on the concert stage. Yet, as her Concerto for String Orchestra demonstrates, she is a composer of considerable merit. Tonight's performance of her work carries on OMF's legacy of introducing our community to new and distinguished artistic voices of international fame. Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, on the other hand, is so well known that there is hardly anyone around that wouldn’t recognize it. Tuneful and brilliant in its poetic vigor and expression, it rightly holds an uncontested place in the string orchestra repertoire.
But the spotlight of tonight's concert is on Francis Poulenc, and organist Joseph Adam, his interpreter. Poulenc's is as a masterpiece of the highest order which allows a virtuoso organist such as Seattle-based Adam to exhibit his deft ability to traverse some very challenging and complex musical terrain. At the same time, Poulenc's concerto is yet another piece of the festival’s program this season which celebrates the best of keyboard music.
About Oregon Festival Orchestra
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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