| Another more : I am going to bring the hubby + same friend who I am trying to make this compilation for, to one of the concerts during the Baltic Sea festival (the same classical music festival during which the Kirov is performing).
They both seem to appreciate the beauty of the Romantic composers, especially the Eastern Europe ones. The hubby likes Sibelius, my friend liked Dvorak and Tchaikovsky so far. Now, there are two concertos that might be suitable:
1. Swedish Radio Symphony orch.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond.
Gidon Kremer, violin
Mårtensson: (new piece, very short)
Sibelius: Violin concerto
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
2. North Germany Radio Symph. orch. (Hamburg)
Christoph Eschenbach, cond.
Maxim Vengerov, violin
Dalbavie: Ciaccona (very short also)
Saint-Saëns: Violin concerto No 3
Tjajkovskij: Symph. 4
I will probably attend both since I really like both Kremer and Vengerov, and both programs mainly consist of pieces I have heard a 1000 times before. So which one do you think I should bring the two novices to? (I can't affort do take them to both)
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