KOPATCHINSKAJA — DRESDEN PHILHARMONIC — STOCKHAMMER

This evening with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Dresden Philharmonic under the baton of Jonathan Stockhammer is dedicated entirely to classical modernism: the Concerto for Chamber Orchestra in E flat major »Dumbarton Oaks« – commissioned by the patron of the arts Robert Wood Bliss and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss for their 30^th wedding anniversary, and bearing the title of their country estate as its title – was written by Stravinsky in the style of the »Brandenburg Concerti«. The Violin Concerto in D major, which he dedicated to the violinist Samuel Dushkin in 1931, also alludes to Bach’s music. Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, commissioned by the French violinist Robert Soetens, was written in Paris, Voronezh and Baku and finally premiered in Madrid in 1935. Bringing things full circle, the programme is completed by the C major Sonata for Two Violins which Prokofiev wrote for the two violinists Samuel Dushkin and Robert Soetens, to whose memory the evening is dedicated.

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA VIOLIN
DRESDNER PHILHARMONIE
JONATHAN STOCKHAMMER CONDUCTOR

Igor Strawinsky Concerto for Chamber Orchestra in E flat major »Dumbarton Oaks« and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major
Sergej Prokofjew Sonata for Two Violins in C major Op. 56 and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in G minor Op. 63

Further concerts with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Dresden Philharmonic on June 7 & 8

PRE-CONCERT TALK
6.30 pm (KULTURPALAST, CHORAL REHEARSAL ROOM, GROUND FLOOR)