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'Concert by Lio Kuokman and Josef Špaček’ by Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra
The Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra has invited two rising stars in classical music and both alumni of the Curtis Institute of Music of the United States – Lio Kuokman, young conductor praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as a “startling conducting talent”, and Josef Špaček, violinist and the youngest concertmaster in the history of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – in two concerts entitled “Concert by Lio Kuokman and Josef Špaček”.
The duo will begin the concert with an early work by the Soviet composer, Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 1. Its premiere in 1923 was a controversy in itself: the reception was mixed, with some regarding it as audacious and innovative, while others dismissed it as being morbid and old-fashioned. It also had difficulty finding a violin soloist to perform it. But when it was finally taken onto the concert stage, the Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti was in the audience, and he was so impressed with it that he added the concerto to his repertory. The following year in 1924, Szigeti achieved unprecedented success when he played it in Prague. Since then, it had slowly gained popularity and finally made it to the violin stock repertoire.
The second half of the programme features Pyotr Ilyrich Tchaikovsky’s final masterpiece, Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique', as a tribute to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the composer’s passing. The Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra will be performing the piece with Špaček as Guest Concertmaster and Lio on the conducting podium. It was said that Tchaikovsky’s original plan was that the work was to be in four movements, each representing youth, love, dejection and death. Although when it was completed in 1893, it did not spell out clearly the four elements, the captions, the emotional shifts, its bleak timbre and suggestion of loss of hope, and the fact that the composer died nine days after its premiere, all pointed the listener in the direction that Tchaikovsky was regarding it as portending his death.
TICKETING
DATE VENUE PRICE 25.05.2018 (Fri)
20:00
20:00
Auditorium, Tuen Mun Town Hall
$160, $140, $120
26.05.2018 (Sat)
20:00
20:00
Auditorium, Tsuen Wan Town Hall
$180, $160, $140
DATE25.05.2018 (Fri)
20:00
20:00
PRICE
$160, $140, $120
DATE26.05.2018 (Sat)
20:00
20:00
PRICE
$180, $160, $140