Live the music - Queensland Symphony Orchestra

12 Maestro Series
MaeSTRo 7
QSO WiTH PiERS lANE
CONduCTOR
Johannes Fritzsch
PiANO
Piers Lane
BERNSTEiN
Candide overture
GERSHWiN
Piano Concerto in F
dvORàk
Symphony no.9 From the new World
Leonard Bernstein’s Candide overture is the
musical equivalent of opening a bottle of
champagne, while George Gershwin’s Piano
Concerto in F radiates all the confidence
and brashness of 1920s new York, with art
deco skyscrapers and dazzling neon signs.
Piers Lane, who regularly inspires the critics,
performs this concerto, a spectacularly
successful marriage of jazz-inspired idiom
and classical form. However much Dvoràk
may have been captivated by the big sky
and wide open prairies of the US when he
wrote his New World Symphony, the lilt and
freshness of this most beloved symphony
tell us that his heart and soul remained in his
native Bohemia.
MaeSTRo 8
QSO WiTH liSA GASTEEN
American inspiration with Lane and Fritzsch The great Wagnerian returns in partnership with QSO and
Bruckner’s massive Eighth
8pm, Friday 13 July 2012
QPAC Concert Hall
Gold Coast bus available
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Piers Lane
8pm, Saturday 11 August 2012
QPAC Concert Hall
CONduCTOR
Johannes Fritzsch
SOPRANO
Lisa Gasteen
WAGNER/ARR. mOTTl
Wesendonck Lieder
BRuCkNER
Symphony no.8
Johannes Fritzsch and the QSo
demonstrate the synergy they have
created in their magisterial Bruckner cycle
with the most awesome of all, the eighth;
a work conductors and orchestras don’t
perform as much as construct out of hewn
granite. Despite its dark, sinister beginning,
it ends in a blaze of glorious optimism,
as befitted the God-fearing Bruckner.
The intimacy and restrained passion of
Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder capture the
intensity of forbidden love, anticipating
the atmosphere of his opera, Tristan &
Isolde and provide an opportunity for
internationally acclaimed australian soprano
and Wagner specialist, Lisa Gasteen
to captivate Brisbane audiences with
rapturous singing.
Maestro Series 13
Lisa Gasteen