A tour de force of romanticism, fantasy, and musical virtuosity not to be missed!
We will be tackling three monumental works, including Bartok’s incredible Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta. This concert is an exploration of how each composer draws from his homeland’s folk idioms — Grieg’s neo-Baroque homage infused with Norwegian dance rhythms, Elgar’s lyrical English melancholy, and Bartók’s modernist transformation of Eastern European folk songs — into something new, modern, romantic, deeply touching, and excitingly avant garde. Bartok’s work is one seeing the composer at the absolute height of his powers – a tour de force of musical virtuosity not to be missed!
