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Saint-Saëns’ Egypt

Musical traditions converge in this unique concert featuring the OSM and the ensemble Constantinople.

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Musical traditions converge in this unique concert featuring the OSM and the ensemble Constantinople. The Mediterranean lies at the heart of this program, portrayed through the imagination and sensibility of European composers such as Saint-Saëns, whose Fifth Piano Concerto offers a stylized evocation of Egypt. As for Cantemir, a Moldovian 18th-century composer, his Ottoman influenced music promises to be a true revelation!

Artists

Rafael Payare, conductor

Cédric Tiberghien, piano

Ensemble Constantinople

Program

Carl Nielsen, Helios, Overture, op. 17 (12 min)

Dimitrie Cantemir, Gavesht samai, Samai-e Lang (4 min)

Edward Grieg, Peer Gynt, Suite no. 2, op. 55: III. Peer Gynt’s Homecoming (4 min)

Dimitrie Cantemir, Bousalik pishrow (5 min)

Edward Grieg, Peer Gynt, Suite no. 1, op. 46: III. Anitra’s Dance (4 min)

Kiya Tabassian, Chavosh (7 min)

Edward Grieg, Peer Gynt, Suite no. 2, op. 55: II. Arabian Dance (4 min)

Camille Saint-Saëns, Piano Concerto no. 5, op. 103, “Egyptian” (29 min)

Total duration70minutes

Rafael Payare

Music Director

Distinguished by innate musicianship, a gift for communication, and an irresistibly joyous spirit, conductor Rafael Payare began playing horn in Venezuela’s El Sistema program at age 14 and started his formal conducting studies in 2004 with José Antonio Abreu. Since winning Denmark’s prestigious Malko Competition for Young Conductors in 2012, his career has advanced rapidly. He was Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra from 2014 to 2019; has served as Principal Conductor of the Castleton Festival, founded by his mentor the late Lorin Maazel, since 2015; became Music Director of the San Diego Symphony in 2019, and three years later became Music Director of Canada’s Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. In recent years, Payare has conducted many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including those of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Zurich, Berlin, Vienna, London, Munich, Hamburg, and Paris, besides making important opera debuts at London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the Glyndebourne Festival; Stockholm’s Royal Swedish Opera; and the Royal Danish Opera.

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