2024-09-11 – 18:35 h

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION

MSO Artistic Ambassadors Tan Dun and Lu Siqing join the Orchestra for a celebratory performance.

 

This concert opens with the Overture to Beethoven’s only ballet. The energetic score represents Prometheus fleeing from heaven after stealing fire from the Gods.

 

Tan Dun’s Violin Concerto seamlessly blends Eastern and Western musical traditions, here performed by Lu Siqing.

 

Paired with the famous Ode to Joy from the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth, Tan Dun conducts the Australian premier of his choral concerto, Nine. This work is Dun’s response to Beethoven, co-commissioned by the MSO and the Philharmonic Society of London – the very group who commissioned Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony two hundred years ago.

ARTISTS

  • Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
  • Tan Dun – Conductor
  • Lu Siqing – Violin
  • MSO Chorus
  • Warren-Trevelyan-Jones – Chorus director

PROGRAM

  • Beethoven – The Creatures of Prometheus: Overture
  • Tan Dun – Hero Concerto for violin
  • Tan Dun – Nine, Choral Concerto (Australian premiere of an MSO Co-commission)
  • Beethoven – Symphony No.9: Ode to Joy
  • NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Tan Dun’s Violin Concerto: Rhapsody & Fantasia will no longer be performed and will be replaced by Tan Dun’s Hero Concerto.

CONCERT