You are cordially invited to the opening of the 7th Winter Festival, featuring Taiwanese pianist Kai-Min Chang, the mixed choir of the Ljubljana Music Matrix, the Festival Choir Virtuozi and soprano Sophie Marin-Degor, mezzo-soprano Annalisa Stroppa, tenor Celso Albelo and bass-baritone Paul Armin Edelmann in a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns' Requiem.
The opening evening will begin with a performance by the Taiwanese pianist Kai-Min Chang, the winner of the 1st Ljubljana Festival International Piano Competition, held in 2023. Chang will perform one of the most challenging concertos in the piano repertoire, the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat major by Johannes Brahms, a large-scale work which took the composer three full years to complete.
Considered by many to be Brahms’s opus summum, in recognition of the lofty position it occupies in the composer’s oeuvre, it is also regarded as one of the pinnacles of nineteenth-century piano concerto composition. The work combines the characteristics of the concerto and the symphony, with a structure that is subordinated to musical expression and requires a technically demanding interpretation that is a great challenge for every pianist.
In the second part of the programme, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and the distinguished French conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier will be joined by the Mixed Choir of the Glasbena Matica Ljubljana, the Virtuosi Festival Choir, the soprano Sophie Marin-Degor, the mezzo-soprano Annalisa Stroppa, the tenor Celso Albelo and the bass-baritone Paul Armin Edelmann in a performance of the Messe de Requiem by Camille Saint-Saëns.
Program:
J. Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83
L. Boulanger: “The earth is the Lord’s”, Psalm 24
C. Saint-Saëns: Messe de Requiem, Op. 5
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