Live the music - Queensland Symphony Orchestra

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Maestro Series
MaeSTRo 5
QSO WiTH vAlERy POlyANSky
8pm, Saturday 12 may 2012
QPAC Concert Hall
CONduCTOR
Valery Polyansky
PiANO
Tatiana Polyanskaya
TRumPET
Sarah Wilson
SHOSTAkOviCH
Festival overture
SHOSTAkOviCH
Piano Concerto no.1
TCHAikOvSky
Marche Slave
BOROdiN
Symphony no.2
only a Russian conductor like Valery Polyansky can invest Borodin's music with the
uniquely Slavic sense of yearning; nowhere is this more heartfelt that in his Second
Symphony. Let Maestro Polyansky and QSo envelope you in its gorgeously sinuous
melodies. In total contrast, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto no.1 is a walk on the wild side
and reveals the composer at his most subversively and mischievously satirical. at the
premiere of his Festival Overture, composed to commemorate the 37th anniversary of
the october Revolution, the audience was ordered to applaud. Modern audiences need
no encouragement.
MaeSTRo 6
QSO WiTH EiviNd AAdlANd
A festival of Russian classics We welcome the return of Roger Woodward and Mahler’s
searing Ninth Symphony
Valery Polyansky
Roger Woodward
8pm, Saturday 16 June 2012
QPAC Concert Hall
CONduCTOR
eivind aadland
PiANO
Roger Woodward
Maestro Series
JS BACH
Keyboard Concerto no.1 in D Minor
mAHlER
Symphony no.9
Roger Woodward, whose Bach
performances were described as the most
searching since Glenn Gould’s, makes his
only australian appearance in his 70th
birthday year. The orchestra’s Principal
Guest Conductor, eivind aadland, returns
to conduct Mahler’s ninth Symphony,
the crowning glory of the great austro-
Germanic symphonic tradition which began
with Haydn and Mozart. The ninth is a
work of genius, with passages of anguished
beauty juxtaposed with mock-gaiety
and sardonic wit. The final adagio is one
of Mahler’s most profound and moving
statements, full of majestic resignation and
far from earthly tribulations.
Eivind Aadland
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