Pompa-Baldi Keyboard Passion

March 26, 2011 • 7:30 pm

Mendelssohn • Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Schumann • Piano Concerto in A Minor

Grieg • Piano Concerto in A Minor

The CSO opens this concert with Mendelssohn’s miracle from his teenage years, the overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Not the work of a young composer but of a fully developed master, this piece offers many challenges to the orchestral musicians and is almost a tone-poem in its scope and ambition.

Then the orchestra performs not one piano concerto, but two. World-renowned pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi joins the CSO to perform concertos by Schumann and Grieg. Antonio has made the music of Grieg into a personal specialty, having performed Grieg’s complete piano works. It will be interesting to perceive the inter-relatedness of the two concertos rarely performed on one concert.

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Listen here to an excerpt from Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Allegro vivace: Schumann Piano Concerto

Listen here to an excerpt from Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Allegro molto moderato: Grieg Piano Concerto

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