Petrushka listings

Karabits Concerto for Orchestra No. 2
Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2
Stravinsky Petrushka

Kirill Karabits - conductor
Simon Trpceski - piano
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Tickets FROM: £6 students, £1 under 18's, £5 VIBES members (www.bsovibes.com), £5 Students 30 minutes before concert, £12 non-students. Call the Lighthouse: 0844 406 8666 or visit www.lighthousepoole.com.

In his Concerto for Orchestra, Ivan Karabits includes many features of a symphony. Along with the conflict of figuarative spheres and their consistent dynamic development the work features the elements of instrumental theatre in which the orchestra plays the role of performer and at the same time imitates an active listener.

Liszt's Second Concerto is cast in a single rhapsodic sweep, but may be regarded as a miniature three-movement work followed by an expansive fantasy on its basic materials. It is built almost entirely on a single theme and the effect is virtually seamless as it metamorphoses into many variet characters - yearning, solemn, martial, sensuous, serene and heroic.

In Petrushka, Stravinsky finds his voice, building a head of steam that would propel him into the tour de force that would follow in The Rite of Spring. Creating contrasts using bold blocks of sound, he uses these orchestral colours in the same way that Romantic and Classical composers had used themes, substituting colour for melody, musical motage for developing variations. From the opening bar it positively dazzles with its colour and energy, often so gestural that even in a concert performance, the images of the dancers are vividly conjured up.

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Profiles of artists at this event:

Simon Trpceski