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Grafenegg Auditorium

Percussionist Colin Currie as soloist of the Grafenegg Academy Orchestra.

Artists

  • Grafenegg Academy Orchestra
  • Colin Currie, percussion

Programme

IGOR STRAWINSKI
Concerto for Chamber Orchestra in E-flat «Dumbarton Oaks»

HELEN GRIME
Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra

IGOR STRAWINSKI
«Symphonies of Wind Instruments»

BÉLA BARTÓK
Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta

New date for 5.7.2020

Introduction/abstract

Grafenegg Academy Orchestra · Colin Currie

GRIME · STRAWINSKI · BARTÓK

Though modernists, Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky drew on the Baroque Concerto with its bold contest between instruments. They also placed a new focus on rhythm. Classics by the two composers frame Helen Grime's sensational Percussion Concerto, premiered to great acclaim by Colin Currie in London in 2019, in this Grafenegg Academy Orchestra concert.

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