QSO Morning Masterworks: QSO with Cislowska & Fritzsch at Concert Hall, QPAC

Suk admired the music of Dvo?ák, his father-in-law, and this richly orchestrated, feel-good Scherzo is a charming fantasy with shimmering harmonies in the vein of Fauré and Chabrier. Dvo?ák's structurally ambitious Seventh Symphony burns with nationalistic fervor and the Slavonic people's eternal resistance to invasion and oppression. From its very first hearing in London, conducted by Dvo?ák, it has been a resounding hit. Leading Australian concert pianist Tamara Anna Cislowska's thrilling virtuosity is the perfect foil for Rachmaninov's tantalizing Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.