This program will take listeners on a tour of melodies hailing from around the world. Bacewicz’s six-minute Overture for Orchestra was composed during the German occupation of Poland and offers an exciting, perpetually shifting palette of colors. The short duration of this Overture does not keep Bacewicz from demonstrating a litany of orchestral sounds and moods in her composition, overlooked until recently. Meanwhile, Spaniard Joaquin Rodrigo’s animated Concierto de Aranjuez features elaborate instrumentation for classical guitar. The piece took its first recorded form as a Braille manuscript carried into Spain by Rodrigo at the outbreak of the Second World War. Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande Suite offers a contemplative reprieve in a romantic and tragic orchestral retelling of elicit lovers and their star-crossed fate, and Alexander Borodin brings the program’s close with his colorful Symphony No. 2, which evokes the exuberance of Russian folk dances. This concert brings the songs of people across time and space to listeners for an experience full of diverse musical landscapes.

Program

Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas, guitar

BACEWICZ  Overture for Orchestra

RODRIGO  Concierto de Aranjuez
I. Allegro con spirito
II. Adagio
III. Allegro gentile

INTERMISSION

FAURÉ  Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80
I. Prélude
II. Entr’acte: Fileuse (The Spinner)
III. Sicilienne
IV. La mort de Mélisande (The Death of Mélisande)

BORODIN  Symphony No. 2 in B minor
I. Allegro
II. Scherzo
III. Andante
IV. Finale: Allegro

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