NOSPR / Rebecca Tong / Bomsori Kim - NOSPR

In the opinion of the eminent scholar Richard Taruskin, the music of Eugene Onegin acts as a narrator illustrating the protagonists’ dilemmas, situating them in time and space and conveying the mood of successive passages. The dignified Polonaise draws the listener into the atmosphere of an elegant ball, at which the hero meets a young woman he rejected years before. Rimsky-Korsakov did not agree with the critics’ opinion that the Capriccio espagnol was a ‘splendidly orchestrated’ composition, maintaining that it was rather a ‘work for orchestra’, the essence of which lay in the varied colours and means of expression peculiar to each of the sections. Both Rimsky-Korsakov and Nielsen conducted the first performances of their works. As fate would have it, the Dane’s Violin Concerto was the last he heard before his death. On 3 October 1931, shortly before the broadcast of the concert that he was supposed to be conducting, he was taken to hospital, where he listened to the Concerto. He died the following night.

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Duration of the concert: approx. 70 minutes