Public dress rehearsal
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Piano Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV1056, ALFRED SCHNITTKE Concerto for Piano and Strings, MAURICE RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin, IGOR STRAVINSKY Pulcinella, suite
piano Polina Osetinskaja, Brno Philharmonic, conductor Ilyich Rivas
• Supreme figure of baroque music and three different twentieth-century composers looking back into musical history • Steely polystylism in Alfred Schnittke’s enigmatic concerto • Originally written for piano, Ravel’s tribute to French clavecinists masterly scored for chamber orchestra • Eighteenth-century music (perhaps Pergolesi’s) in Igor Stravinsky’s neo-classical modern reworking: concert suite from the ballet Pulcinella, created for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes • Russian pianist Polina Osetinskaya, a quarter of a century ago a child prodigy, today a distinctive performer dedicated to serving the musical arts, past and present • Conductor Ilyich Rivas, a rising Venezuelan-American star
