Details

Item details

Date

April 26, 2025 7:30PM

Location

Old Cabell Hall

Name

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3

Description

Benjamin Rous, conductor
Anna Han, piano

Anna Han's appearance is made possible by a generous gift from Virginia Cenedella.

DEBUSSY  Clair de lune arr. Caplet (1905) 6′
SAARIAHO  Asteroid 4179: Toutatis (2005) 4′
BORODIN  Polovtsian Dances (1890) 11′
RACHMANINOFF  Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 (1909) 39′

Claude Debussy, Clair de lune
Translated as Moonlight, this Clair de lune is a lush orchestral arrangement of Debussy’s best-loved piano piece.

Kaija Saariaho, Asteroid 4179: Toutatis
Toutatis was a Celtic god worshipped in ancient Gaul and Britain. Saariaho has attached his name to Asteroid 4179 whose orbit passes close to Earth and explored how its unusual shape and complex rotation have impacted her concept and experience of time.

Alexander Borodin, Polovtsian Dances
Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances create an exotic scene from his opera, Prince Igor. But fans of the Tony Award-winning 1953 Broadway musical Kismet know it better for the romantic ballad "Stranger in Paradise".

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3
Hailed as “a sensitive and poetic player’’ with “gorgeous expressivity,” Anna Han helps bring the 50^th Anniversary Season to a rousing conclusion with Rachmaninoff’s herculean Piano Concerto No.3.  Huge in scale and rich in emotion, No. 3 is often called the Mt. Everest of the piano concerto repertoire.