Published on Jan 25, 2016

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Friday, February 19, 2016

Venue: Concert Hall of NCPA

Prices: 280, 480, 680, 880, 1080, 1280, 1680

Features: Estonian-born and American-raised conductor Kristjan Jarvi and the China NCPA Orchestra will perform Doctor Atomic symphony & Shostakovich symphony No.7 at Concert Hall of NCPA on February 19th, 2016.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Hailed by New York Times as "a kinetic force on the podium, like Leonard Bernstein reborn", Kristjan Jarvi has combined his classical roots and affinity for traditional repertoire with an infectious enthusiasm for creating original programs, propelling classical concert halls around the globe into the 21st century.

John Adams' opera of Doctor Atomic, with the libretto by Peter Sellars, focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb was being prepared. In 2007, Adams adapted the opera into the Doctor Atomic Symphony.

"Seventh Symphony" is the most realistic one of Shostakovich's symphonies. At first, Shostakovich gave each of the four movements of the work a title, "War", "Memories", "Our Country's Wide Spaces" and "Victory in the Future", respectively. These titles were later removed, but the fact that they had once appeared, implies that the composer had intended to use an epic tone to express his feelings and thoughts about the war. However, the music is never difficult to be understood without these titles, and it is never difficult for the listener to associate it with the heroism that the Soviet Union showed during World War II. While its creation and performance in war time inspired all peace-loving peoples of the world with courage and will to fight with fascism, in times of peace the work reminds us to remember history and cherish peace, and evokes associations with war frenzy and heroism.

Kristjan Jarvi
A winner of Grammy and ECHO Klassik Awards, Fabio Luisi currently serves as General Music Director of the Zurich Opera, Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, and Principal Conductor designate of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (DNSO), beginning in 2017. This season at the Met he conducts new productions of Macbeth, The Merry Widow, and a double bill of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci. For his third season at the helm in Zurich he leads new productions of Martinu’s Juliette and I Capuleti e i Montecchi as well as revivals of Norma and Ariadne auf Naxos. Elsewhere in 2014-15, Luisi helms a new production of Berg’s Lulu at the Dutch National Opera, and his orchestral engagements include concerts with the Philharmonia Zurich, DNSO, Cleveland Orchestra and Juilliard Orchestra.

Born in Genoa in 1959, Luisi began piano studies at the age of four and received his diploma from the Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini in 1978. In 2014 he was awarded the Grifo d’Oro, the highest honor given by the city of Genoa, for his contributions to the city’s cultural legacy.

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