30 september 2024 Prominent Japanese Musicians - Soloists At The Symphony Concert

After the extremely rich - both in terms of the intensity of events and the variety of genres - Season 2023/2024 for the Burgas Opera, the official opening of the new Season 2024/2025 is coming. On October 4, Friday, at 7 p.m. in the Hall of the Opera Maestro Deyan Pavlov / guest/ will stand at the conductor's desk of the Symphony Concert with guest soloists from Japan: Kiyoko Sakai - piano, Koji Okazaki - bassoon, and Ettsuko Okazaki - piano. The three prominent musicians are professors at Musashino Academy in Tokyo and have impressive artistic biographies.

Prof. Deyan Pavlov, who is a teacher at the National Academy of Music "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" - the city of Sofia and is a frequent and welcome guest conductor on our stage and tour at the Burgas Cultural Institute, has prepared an impressive program for the concert, which includes significant works from the classical music treasury for a symphony orchestra: Piano Concerto and Orchestra No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 75 by Carl Maria von Weber, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 by Frederic Chopin.

The first piano concerto of the great representative of the Viennese classical school, Ludwig van Beethoven, was completed in 1796-1797 and was performed by Beethoven himself in Prague the following year. Although it was published first, the concerto is the composer's third opus in this genre - before it was created an unknown concerto in E flat major and the Second Concerto, which was published later /in 1801/ The work was born in the first creative period of the composer, after his move to Vienna in 1792, when he was influenced by the work and personalities of the other immortal representatives of the Viennese classics - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn. His first piano concerto is the bearer of maturity, compositional mastery, and the individual signature that builds Beethoven's unique style. The concert's music captivates with gushing vital energy, expansive poetics, and beautiful dynamic nuances.

The second piano work of the October 4th concert included in the program is the Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in F major, opus 75 by Carl Maria von Weber. Although a complete contemporary of Beethoven, Carl Maria von Weber embodies a different aesthetic and style in his work, which lacks the dramatic internal conflict of Beethoven's music, but has an emotional sophistication and finesse that is also noticeable in his Bassoon Concerto. Behind Weber's successes are family tradition and family upbringing. His father, Baron Franz Anton von Weber, was the uncle of Mozart's wife, Constanze, and was a violinist and director of a traveling theater troupe. His mother was an excellent singer, and his brother was also an excellent musician, a student of Joseph Haydn.

The last famous work of the world piano classics to be heard at the Symphony Concert on Friday is the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E minor. which was written by the Polish composer Chopin in 1830, following his Second Concerto, composed a few months earlier, but given its number due to an earlier edition in 1833, while the Second Concerto was not printed until 1836. This concerto, bearer of the most characteristic features of the period in the cultural and philosophical space – Romanticism, together with Concerto No. 2, is one of the two works that the finalists of the International Piano Competition named after the great composer must choose to perform in the competition program.

The symphonic concert on Thursday in the hall of the State Opera - Burgas is an invitation to a sophisticated experience with high musical and aesthetic value. Don't miss an exciting up-close encounter with the high art, aristocracy, and universal messages of classical music! Expect the rich October program of the Burgas Opera, which includes performances and concerts of various genres: opera, musical, ballet, and children's performances: https://operabourgas.com/bg/programme.