Conductor Vasily Petrenko will conduct pianist Simon Trpceski and the Los Angeles Philharmonic from Nov. 23 to the 25 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The program for the trio of days will have Danish composer Carl Nielsen's "Maskarade Overture," Edvard Grieg's "Piano Concerto" and Russian Dmitri Shostakovich's "Symphony No. 10," on show. Shostakovich's piece will be the final performance on the nights and will be one of the major highlights of the events.
Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 1 during the summer of 1925 and died exactly 50 years and 14 more symphonies later. He had one of the most difficult careers ever endured by an artist, a life tormented by suffocating political repression, foreign invasion, and personal tragedy.
Equally brilliant was Grieg was the most prominent Scandinavian composer of his generation. Of his large-scale works, the Piano Concerto has proven his greatest legacy. Grieg's use of folk tunes and other folk-inspired material places him squarely among the musical nationalists of the 19th century and was also a great influence on later composers, including Debussy.
"The artist is an optimist. Otherwise he would be no artist. He believes and hopes in the triumph of the good and the beautiful," said Grieg.
Another Scandinavian, Nielsen was involved in popular and classical music from a young age, later becoming a member and then conductor of the opera orchestra at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. His comic opera "Maskarade," made him a national hero in 1906.
Carl Nielsen- Maskarade Overture
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