Cadogan Hall Nov 09 - May 10 Page 10

FRIDAY 9TH APRIL 2010, 7.30PM

SHOSTAKOVICH
CONDUCTS
SHOSTAKOVICH

Maxim Shostakovich

Conductor

Natasha Paremski

Piano

Shostakovich

Festive Overture

Shostakovich

Piano Concerto No.2

Shostakovich

Symphony No.5

Maxim Shostakovich is the son of the great Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich. He brings
very particular insights to his father's music; here the cheeky and scintillating

Festive Overture,

the witty Piano Concerto No.2 with its lovely slow movement being of moonlit radiance, and the
Fifth Symphony, which has ambiguous political overtones and remains one of Shostakovich's most
personal and richly rewarding pieces.

THURSDAY 27TH MAY 2010, 7.30PM

Jahja Ling

Conductor

Janina Fialkowska

Piano

Weber

Oberon Overture

Chopin

Piano Concerto No.1

Sibelius

Symphony No.2

Weber's

Oberon Overture makes for a magical

and exuberant curtain-raiser. In celebration of the
200th anniversary of Chopin's birth, Canadian pianist
Janina Fialkowska returns to Cadogan Hall to perform his First Piano Concerto. Regarded as one of
the world's leading Chopin interpreters, she is the perfect exponent for the brilliant piano writing of
this Concerto. Sibelius' Second Symphony provides a fitting finale to the evening. Inspired by his
Finnish homeland, it is a work full of romantic melodies and electrifying thrust.