The spirit of the dance infuses two of the three works on this program. Much of the music Khachaturian wrote as incidental music for Lermontov's play Masquerade is dance music. Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances are seldom danced, but their exceptionally brilliant orchestration contributes significantly to making this one of the composer's finest scores. In between comes Scriabin's early Piano Concerto, with its echoes of Chopin and Rachmaninoff.
Cast and Creative team for The Spirit of the Dance at Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra Kazuki Yamada conductor Benedetto Lupo piano