Chin's Piano Concerto & Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

Image from Sunwook Kim © Marco Borggreve

Le sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky still sounds new after over a century. The performance of Unsuk Chin's Piano Concerto by Karina Canellakis and the South Korean Sunwook Kim will undoubtedly also be spectacular.

Chin's Piano Concerto & Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

Dates

Sat 23 Sep14:15 - 16:35

Location

Het Koninklijk Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Concertgebouwplein 10

1071 LN Amsterdam

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The Piano Concerto: 'vintage' Unsuk Chin

Unsuk Chin – this season's central composer for the Saturday Matinee – has written seven solo concertos, with the Piano Concerto from 1997 as a masterful starting point. In November 2020, this work could already be heard in the Matinee, then forced to use a corona-resistant line-up with the composer's permission. Now Chin's refined orchestration sounds in its full glory. In each of the four parts, the Korean conjures up a different sound world for the ears. Although the textures are 'vintage' Chin, influences from her teacher György Ligeti can also be felt here and there.

Musorgsky and Stravinsky

A Russian line in this program starts with Dawn on the River Moskva, the overture to Mussorgsky's unfinished 'people's opera' Khovanshchina, about the turbulent power struggle between the conservative Prince Ivan Khovansky and the Pro-Western soon-to-be tsar Peter the Great. Igor Stravinsky, among others, was involved in the orchestration of Musorgsky's piano score in 1913. In the same year, he completed his radically innovative Le sacre du Printemps.