The Montreal Symphony Orchestra and violinist Viviane Hagner (“rich, burnished tone, crystalline articulation and subtle expression” Washington Post) present Prokofiev’s tour-de-force First Violin Concerto, with its jaw-dropping fireworks, left-hand pizzicato passages, and dizzying glissandi. Maestro Kent Nagano also leads Mussorgsky’s epic orchestral showpiece, with its delightful “Ballet of the Chicks in their Shells,” the eerie Parisian “Catacombs”; and the tumultuous pealing of bells in the grand finale, “The Great Gate of Kiev.” Haydn’s “Fire” Symphony rounds out this engaging program.
Cast and Creative Team for Orchestre symphonique de Montréal at NAC Southam Hall
Kent Nagano conductor
Viviane Hagner violin
