From the New World

One of Mozart’s two minor concertos, Concerto No. 20 for Piano and Orchestra, is also notable for its dramatic nature. It is no accident that even the young Beethoven was recognized by his contemporaries as one of the best interpreters of this music. Rhythmically fastidious, enchantingly brilliant, and at the same time melodic and creative, Mozart’s music drives the most sophisticated music lovers. Especially when performed by young, but already well-known, soloists.

The grand finale will be Antonin Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9, subtitled “From the New World”. Composing this work at the end of the nineteenth century, the Czech composer recorded his impressions of the American continent, its music and folklore in the score. At that time, America was a new, unexplored world for Europeans, which aroused great interest and admiration. Nowadays, Ukraine and its people have become this new world for everyone, bravely resisting the enemy, and protecting and defending the most important thing – Independence.

Artists:

• Eva Kulikovska, piano
  winner of national and international competitions,
  creative postgraduate student of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy under the direction of Professor Jozsef Yermin
• Symphony Orchestra of the Vasyl Slipak Opera Studio of the Lviv National Music Academy
  artistic director – Yurii Bervetskyi
• Oleh Chaplynskyi, conductor

Program:

• Antonín Dvořák. Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor K.466